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Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies.Java Island, 1941Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family?s dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java?living with other Dutch families?had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita?s family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie.Mary Vischer is three months pregnant when she enters the Tjident women?s camp with thousands of other women and children. Her husband, George, is somewhere on the Java Sea with the Dutch Navy, so she must care alone for her young children, Rita and Georgie, and her frail mother. The brutal conditions of the overcrowded camp make starvation, malaria, and dysentery a grim reality. Mary must do
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