The Tulips are Red Author:Leesha Rose World War II has begun, and Hitler's armies have invaded the peace-loving Netherlands. For a young Jewish girl just graduated from high school and looking forward to a full and rewarding life, it is a shattering of a dream and the beginning of a nightmare. — With the ever-present threats of deportation to "destinations unknown," the... more » girl found a nursing position in a hospital where it was not unusual to find Jewish 'patients' in hiding from the dread Gestapo. While she is relatively safe here, her family is broken apart and deported to concentration camps. Finally, the hospital itself is raided and the patients shipped away in closed vans. The girl manages to escape and find her way into another hospital "for Jews only."
There she meets a young man who was mortally wounded by the Nazis. He is a member of the Dutch Resistance, and he urges the girl to join. She does join, and here begins the exciting story of her activities in hiding Jews in Gentile homes, and caring for them, as well as participating in many attacks against the Nazis under her new identity.
This remarkable true account, written by the woman who lived through it, is an incredible story of intrigue, adventure, love, hate, courage, anguish, and, ultimately, triumph. It sheds new light on the strength of a people subjected to the worst atrocities and oppression, as well as the courage and fortitude of the many Dutch Gentiles who risked hiding Jews in their homes because they knew it was "the Christian thing to do."« less