A Safe House: Holland 1940-1945
Author: Maria Jacobs
A Safe House
is the true story of a young Dutch girl and her mother sheltering
four Jewish compatriots in their home during the Nazi occupation.
The first version of this book, entitled Precautions Against
Death (1983), received much acclaim in Canada, and in Holland,
where it was published in Dutch. Now this enhanced and expanded
version, including photographs, is available for a new generation
of readers.
“… beautiful and
wonderful…. It really touched me to the heart.”
- Margaret Laurence
“A splendidly evocative,
gentle and touching account … woven together with
literary skill of a high order.”
- Ken Adachi, Toronto Star
“I was impressed by the
tone of the book, by the simplicity and purity of voice….
This is one of the few books I have read about that period
which I can praise without any mental reservation regarding
artistic merit.”
- Adele Wiseman
“… the story’s
drama of will, determination and dogged endurance comes
through with immense force.”
- Clara Thomas
“If only the world held
more of the decency, the matter-of-fact goodness, the moral
certainty expressed in the pages of this extraordinary book:
the knowledge that a life is not worth living if it is not
risked to counter evil.”
- Rhea Tregebov
