Author Archive: Hendrika de Vries
A New Year’s Eve Miracle: Excerpt
May the New Year bring the “miracle” you wish for. A New Year’s Eve Miracle. We walked with deliberate steps. Placed our feet with care on the slippery surface of the ice-covered sidewalks and bridges of our Nazi-occupied town. Held on to each other tight, so not to slip and fall into the dark canal, […]
I Can’t Breathe…
Hendrika de Vries is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: a memoir about her childhood in Nazi-occupied WWII Amsterdam. “I can’t breathe…” “I can’t breathe” whispered George Floyd as a white man in authority put his knee on his neck and crushed him to death. “I can’t breathe” […]
From May 1945 to COVID-19: Reflections
By Hendrika de Vries I have found one of the lovely surprises about growing old if you are lucky, is that you become part of a web of friends, colleagues and family members who span the planet. Over the years they stretch your mind and enrich your life by their diverse cultural lifestyles, beliefs and rituals, and […]
Sharing Our Stories—Shining a Light
Hendrika de Vries: When A Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew… From the time that I was a little girl curled up on my father’s lap, enchanted by his bedtime stories of fairy-tale heroes and heroines, and mythic far-away places where magical gods and goddesses could morph into animal shapes at […]
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