I offer you the following excerpt from my book together with a picture that illustrates one more incredibly moving facet of this remarkable story.
It was 4:30 the morning of May 10, 1940, and being that it was springtime, the first signs of daylight had begun. Sipora was suddenly awakened by the sound of airplanes flying overhead. A young woman of only eighteen, she was clueless to what this really meant, and all she felt was curiosity and confusion.
Like so many Dutchmen who were aware of what was happening in other parts of Europe, Marcel Rodrigues had a good idea of the intentions of the Nazi war machine.
“They want to throw us all in the Zuider Zee (South Sea)”, he said, a statement that was not literally accurate, but was sadly prophetic in substance.
So that morning when the planes were flying overhead, on a night when Sipora heard sounds she had never heard before, she asked her father what was going on. He was to answer her in a very distinct, yet uncharacteristically cold way, and very accurately said to his daughter Sipora, “It’s war.”
After my brother Marcel established contact and subsequently a friendship with the current residents of my mother and Bram’s old home a number of years back, he was able to put my mother in touch with the woman who currently lives there with her husband and beautiful children, and through the magic of FaceTime my mother was able to confirm which room was actually hers. On Sunday July 21, 2019, thanks to the kindness and hospitality of Jantien and her family, I was able to stand in the very room where my mother had this exact conversation with her father on May 10, 1940.
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