My Sins Go With Me

My Sins Go With MeCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781471149856 Format: B format paperback Year: 2025 Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Description: Highly engaging . . . The creeping escalation of oppression and rebellion is often thrillingly told . . . A powerful story of a history that remains far from settled Daily Telegraph In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anna Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781471149856
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK


Description:
‘Highly engaging . . . The creeping escalation of oppression and rebellion is often thrillingly told . . . A powerful story of a history that remains far from settled’ Daily Telegraph




In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anna-Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and participated in audacious acts of sabotage. She survived when others did not, a witness to their courage and to the terrible treachery that betrayed so many of them to the Nazis.




Tens of thousands of Dutchmen elected to fight with the Germans, while many civilians turned over their Jewish neighbours to an almost certain death. Holland’s Jewish leaders prevaricated, hoping to save their people and their own skins. But the exploits of the Dutch Resistance produced unimaginable heroism and unparalleled self-sacrifice.




A chance meeting with Martin Sixsmith in 2019 led to Anna-Maria telling him her story. In Dutch and German archives, interviews with survivors, personal diaries and contentious memoirs by those with things to hide, Sixsmith came across a drama on a scale he could never have imagined.



My Sins Go with Me is a story of remarkable bravery, and of cowardice and betrayal in the hardest of times.