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Two Prayers Before Bedtime
“She saw her daughter, smaller and smaller until she faded out of view completely”Amsterdam, September 1942. Every day a fight for survival. Terror has gripped the beautiful city of Amsterdam, following the Nazi invasion. With the help of the Dutch Resistance, desperate mother Cilla is forced to send her young son and nineteen month old baby daughter into separate hiding places.Cilla’s own years in hiding are shadowed by fear about her children. Are they alive? Will her daughter remember her and will she even want to come “home”?A gripping story of love and loss in a world of turmoil. Based on a secret, true story told for the first time after seventy years.“One day soon I will get you back and I will never let you go again. Never.”“This is the most compelling Holocaust story I think my students will ever read/” Vivan Kesenbaum, high school teacher, Boca Raton, Florida“I loved this book. It was so vividly told and I absolutely loved the ending.” Izzy Pactor, aged 11, London“It’s a really great book that taught me a lot about the war.” Joelle Deutsch, age 12, London
184 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2014
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December 11, 2017
Can you imagine giving your children away during the war time to keep them safe? Cilla makes that heart breaking decision and is separated from Anton and Renata for nearly one thousand days. She and her husband, Edmund, were also forced into hiding and with the help of the courageous resistance workers they spent almost nine hundred days been hidden in many different locations around Holland.
I found this beautifully written book so moving, reading it in one sitting and grateful for my sunglasses on the beach for hiding my tears.It is a story of loss, love and survival and everyone should read it
I found this beautifully written book so moving, reading it in one sitting and grateful for my sunglasses on the beach for hiding my tears.It is a story of loss, love and survival and everyone should read it
January 28, 2017
About a family who lived through the holcaust in Amserdam. Written for children but still great adult read .
December 18, 2022
This was a beautifully written book. Very moving and completely absorbing. It is a testament to the power of the human will.
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