"I asked Albert – who is the former husband of Lien de Jong (the subject of my book The Cut Out Girl, which describes how Lien was sent to stay with my grandparents, and her trauma as one of the Netherlands “hidden children”) – what he thought when he first read it and how he feels about it now. “My first reaction,” he told me, “was that I could have written that story myself, but then later I realised that what made it special lay not in the events that she experienced (after all, I had undergone the same things myself) but in her personal growth.” Albert’s family went into hiding at the same moment and in the same manner. They too were discovered, but, unlike the Franks, the De Mesquitas had a miraculous escape."
From: Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary by Bart von Es
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/25/anne-frank-full-story-bart-van-es
Hmmm.
https://research.annefrank.org/en/personen/b60c0ac8-23fd-4605-9961-b8b1eb86408f/
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