Only a teenager when the Nazis invaded her neutral homeland of Holland, Dutch Jew Flory Van Beek hoped to escape on the SS Simon Bolivar with Felix, the young man from Germany who would later become her husband, until their ship was blown up and sunk. In a simple, straightforward style she tells how they survived this attack, were returned to Holland, and went into hiding with sympathetic protectors.
"An amazing account—it makes you want to head straight for Holland and shake everybody's hand.... Horror is real; the Nazis insisted on it, sponsored it even. But decency is real, too, and sometimes it prevails. This book bears witness to that."—Washington Post
