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Hetty Verolme
Hetty’s family was torn apart following the 1940 German Invasion of the Netherlands and rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the ‘Children’s House’ in Belsen Concentration Camp. As one of the eldest Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’ helping to care not only for her siblings but the other children as well. In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable largely untold story of the Holocaust — the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of 40 children through those terrible years.
Awards
Winner, Christina Stead Award, 2000
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Hetty: A True Story 2010
- Hetty: A True Story eBook 2010
- Children's House of Belsen, The 2000
- The Children's House of Belsen eBook 2000
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1.2.3. YA
Fremantle press and the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre invite you to join us for an evening with first time novelist Deb Fitzpatrick, second time novelist A.J. Betts and third time novelist Kate McCaffrey.
Chaired by Lynne Cahill, The West Australian, Newspapers in Education.
When: 6.30pm, Tuesday 7 September 2010
Where: Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, Old Prison Hospital, Cnr Knutsford and Hampton Road, Fremantle, (Parry St carpark)
RSVP:08 9430 6331 or admin@fremantlepress.com.au
