After her mother's death, Eva Taylor discovered a trove of letters, photographs and notes that reconstruct Sabine Zuur's life as a young Dutch resistance operative and her subsequent imprisonment. The narrative follows her time in the underground, arrest, and more than two years in three different camps.
The correspondence offers intimate detail — love letters from a fallen fiancé, messages smuggled in laundry, and a fraught relationship with a German criminal whose actions altered Sabine's fate. The book combines archival evidence with personal reflection to illuminate survival under extreme conditions.
Ideal for readers of WWII history, Holocaust memoirs and documentary biography, this focused account presents history through first-hand documents and a daughter’s determination to tell her mother's story.
- Draws on letters and archival photos
- Documents Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen
- Themes: resistance, survival, memory