Verbum Holocaust Library - Fragile Red

Title: Verbum Holocaust Library - Fragile Red

Writer: Josua Ossendrijver

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789074274791

Condition: Good

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Description:
Mourning poppies, that was what she had always called the painting somewhat jokingly. The painting that runs like a red thread through the lives of Will, Chaja and Arjan. They don't know each other, have never even heard of each other.

But in a short time, fate brings them together and their lives are linked by horrible events during World War II. They not only discover how the truth can be different than expected, but also how reality can turn life upside down with devastating effects, even after seventy years.

Author info
Josua Ossendrijver was born on 9 November 1943 in a hiding place in Rotterdam from Jewish parents. Immediately after his birth he was given up and was registered by his 'foster parents' as their own child under the name Klaas Slegt.

After attending the Municipal Teacher Training College in Rotterdam, he became a teacher and in 1970 director of a primary school in Rotterdam's Oude Noorden.

In 2010, his parents having already died, he received proof that his parents were in fact his foster or adoptive parents. His biological parents (Simon Ossendrijver and Rosette Sanders) and his brother David were murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
Since then he has called himself Josua Ossendrijver.

His autobiography Verdoezeld Verleden (Disguised Past) about this discovery was published by Verbum in 2014.

Josua Ossendrijver is a guest speaker/lecturer for the Camp Westerbork Support Center, secretary of the Stolpersteine ​​Schiedam Foundation and general board member of the WIJ-land Foundation.