Dear Ms. Jacobs, I am a Canadian, Jewish, and living in a small canal house on the outskirts of Amsterdam for the month of October. Searching the shelves for something to read, I came across your book, A Safe House, Holland 1940-1945. Immediately, I picked it up and read it from cover to cover. Your true story, so vividly told, sent me first to the city of Amersfoort, where you and your mother sheltered four Jews during the Nazi occupation. I wasn't looking for your particular house, but needed to get a sense of what it might have felt like for you, as a young girl, hiding and caring for four strangers that became family. As a writer, I was moved by the purity of your voice and the simplicity of your descriptions. Consequently, when we
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