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‘I’m not saying you have to use it, but you will be in a far stronger position if you’re armed. Go on – take it.’

On arrival, it seems the prisoners are treated reasonably well and provided with food and medicines, but the worrying thing is the number who are not accounted for.’

‘That’s not what you used to think. Don’t you remember how you used to tell me that people like us could make a difference if we supported the resistance?’

People were led to believe that the ghettos were just temporary – until it became obvious that trucks and trains were being prepared to transport the Jews to unknown destinations.

Trudi still had misgivings about getting involved in an organisation that expected its members to take up arms against the enemy. Frida didn’t see it that way. She was excited to be doing some ‘real resistance work’, as she liked to call it.

I have read many World War II historical fiction books and this one made me angry. After the main character blabbed about her resistance work with two strangers, I couldn’t continue reading. To have a character that naive and weak was not believable. There are so many wonderful books of brave resistance women but this isn’t one of them.

You can’t go anywhere in Amsterdam these days without seeing German soldiers on the street stopping people and demanding to know what their business is.