The power of these firsthand and wellillustrated recollections about a boyhood in occupied Holland lies in their extraordinary ordinariness. As the fourth child of a large Catholic family in The Hague Jan was spared the horrors of true persecution by the Nazis. Yet his detailed memories of deprivation and dread vividly conjure up the harshness of Dutch life under Hitlers cruel rule. Young Jan was roughly Anne Franks age during the war. Published here for the first time his wartime memories p