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Roxane van Iperen - The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

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A New York Times bestseller

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust.

Eight months after Germanys invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the Winter of 1943, resistance is growing. Among those fighting their brutal Nazi occupiers are two Jewish sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam. Risking arrest and death, the sisters help save others, sheltering them in a clandestine safehouse in the woods, they called The High Nest.

This secret refuge would become one of the most important Jewish safehouses in the country, serving as a hiding place and underground center for resistance partisans as well as artists condemned by Hitler. From The High Nest, an underground web of artists arises, giving hope and light to those living in terror in Holland as they begin to restore the dazzling pre-war life of Amsterdam and The Hague.

When the house and its occupants are eventually betrayed, the most terrifying time of the sisters lives begins. As Allied troops close in, the Brilleslijper family are rushed onto the last train to Auschwitz, along with Anne Frank and her family. The journey will bring Janny and Lien close to Anne and her older sister Margot. The days ahead will test the sisters beyond human imagination as they are stripped of everything but their courage, their resilience, and their love for each other.

Based on meticulous research and unprecedented access to the Brilleslijpers personal archives of memoirs and photos, Sisters of Auschwitz is a long-overdue homage to two young womens heroism and moral bravery--and a reminder of the power each of us has to change the world.

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Contents
Title Page
Preface
1: The Battle of Nieuwmarkt
2: The Brown Plague
3: Strike! Strike! Strike!
4: Children of the War
5: The House Search
6: Axis of Resistance
7: The Starvation Cure
8: The Imprisonment
9: On the Run
10: The First Train
11: Bergen aan Zee
12: Mushroom Steak
13: The Jansen Sisters
Part Two: The High Nest
1: A Villa in the Woods
2: The Free Artist
3: Neighbours
4: Masks
5: Associates
6: Unwelcome Encounters
7: The Kestrel
8: Autumn Song
9: The Chinese Vase
10: The Bullet
11: Westerbork
12: The Last Train
13: Kidnapped
Part Three: Surviving
1: The Journey East
2: Do You Know the Mussel Man?
3: Liens Violet
4: La Marseillaise
5: Star Camp
6: The Storm
7: The Party
8: City of Dead
9: The Final Journey
Epilogue
After The High Nest
Acknowledgments
References
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
The moment we drive onto the woodland path and the house emerges between the trees, we fall in love. It is not quite the little cottage in the country we were looking for this house is enormous and even has a name: The High Nest. Our eyes travel across the majestic faade, brick walls covered with ivy, windows framed by old shutters. It has an air of history and grandeur, but without any of the usual detachment or pretence. On the contrary: the wild woodland garden, tall grass, the rope ladders dangling here and there and the orchard at the back they call us to come run, play, light fires and spend endless nights talking underneath the stars, undisturbed by civilization. We look at each other and think exactly the same. How lucky we would be to live here.
The inconceivable happens. In the late summer of 2012, my husband and I, our three young children, an Old German Shepherd dog and three cats move into a caravan in the garden of The High Nest, and we embark on the long journey of restoring this extraordinary place to its former glory. Walls are renovated and stairs sanded, panels are removed, revealing ceilings with ingenious beam structures. With our bare hands we tear away the carpets and in almost each room we discover trapdoors in the wooden floors, hiding places behind old panelling. There we find candle stumps, sheet music, old resistance newspapers. And so, along with the renovation of The High Nest, begins the reconstruction of its history. A perplexing history which, as it turns out, includes an important part of the Dutch war years, unknown to most people even within the vicinity of the house.
I sound out the previous owner, locals, shopkeepers in neighbouring villages, I dive into land registers and archives, and go from one surprise to the next. At the height of the Second World War, as the trains towards concentration camps are driving at full capacity and the Endlsung der Judenfrage, the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, is well on its way, The High Nest was a large hiding and resistance centre, run by two Jewish sisters. In the following years I become acquainted with the descendants of those who lived in The High Nest. Those who hid there as children return to the house. They offer me their memories and personal documents, so I can give this story colour and the sisters a voice.
Slowly but surely, room by room, the pieces of the puzzle start to form the unbelievable story which now, six years later, is committed to paper. It is a history that confirms my very first feeling: this house is bigger than we are. We are merely the passers-by, lucky enough to live here.
When we have to fight, so be it. One cannot become untrue to oneself. One cannot fool oneself either. This is what we believed in. We did what we had to do, what we could do. No more and no less.
Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper
Amsterdam, 1912. Had the Battle of the Nieuwmarkt been settled differently, the Brilleslijper family would probably never have existed. There, on the square in the heart of the Jewish Quarter, at the foot of the ancient city gate, young Joseph Brilleslijper fought for the hand of Fietje Gerritse.
Their families are perfect opposites: Joseph descends from a circus family of travelling, Yiddish-speaking musicians, and although his father has become a fruit importer, the Brilleslijpers still host exuberant Friday evenings at their home on Jodenbreestraat, where all family members gather to act and sing. Fietje Gerritse, on the other hand, is from a family of devout Frisian Jews; tall, sullen people with ginger hair, raising their six children with strict discipline among the godlessness of the Red Light District, with its dock workers, sailors and whores. From a young age, Fietje worked in her parents late-night shop on Zeedijk, standing on a crate behind the till, her three brothers, acting as bouncers, by her side. She has fallen madly in love with ever cheerful Joseph, but her parents will have none of him; a good-for-nothing, out-of-work boy, constantly running off to visit his travelling grandfather at the circus.
The three Gerritse brothers have, more than once, mercilessly beaten Joseph up, and when he comes to their parents house to ask for Fietjes hand, they even throw him out, his face flat on the clinkers. Joseph realises there is but one option left. He invites the unbeaten giants of Zeedijk to descend from their throne so he can, once and for all, show the Gerritse family his mettle. With his older brother Ruben, he drums up some friends from the neighbourhood, including Dumb pie, the boy who has never spoken a word but is as strong as an ox, so no one comments on that, and with their fists and jaws clenched, they head towards the old city gate. In front of the fish stalls on Nieuwmarkt, a spectacular fist fight breaks loose. For the first time in their lives, the Gerritse brothers are brought to their knees. Joseph wipes the blood from his knuckles, picks his Fietje up at her parents store and together they move in with Ruben and his wife.
Whether it was strategic insight, brute force or good fortune, the victory marks the beginning of a loving relationship. They marry on 1 May 1912 and Josephs father finds the young couple a small place to live in the poorest part of the Jewish Quarter. And there, on 13 December 1912, their daughter Rebekka, Lientje, Brilleslijper first sees the light of day.
The family is penniless but happy. A few lean years later and with a little help from Opa (Grandpa) Jaap, Josephs father, they take over a small shop on Nieuwe Kerkstraat, where they move into the apartment above the store with young Lien. While Fietje works in the shop day and night, Joseph helps out in Opa Jaaps wholesale business. It will take another four years before Fietjes parents two squares away but worlds apart reach out to their daughter. The occasion is the birth of Fietjes second daughter, Marianne, Janny, named after her maternal grandmother. Five years later, in the summer of 1921, the long-awaited son, Jacob, Japie, is born, and the family is complete.
While Joseph and Fietje work around the clock to make ends meet, the Jewish Quarter raises their children. Large families live in long, narrow rooms, with children sleeping underneath the sink or along the skirting board in the hall, so most of their life happens out on the street. Just around the corner from the Brilleslijper home is Royal Theater Carr where Lien and Janny spend hours, staring at the stream of beautifully dressed people who come to see the revue. Further down Jodenbreestraat is the Tip Top Theater, a popular meeting place where silent movies are shown and famous artists like Louis and Heintje Davids perform.
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