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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
Website
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
