A Family Secret

While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a jumble sale Jeroen finds a scrapbook his grandmother made during World War II. It brings back painful memories for her and she tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands and about he loss of her Jewish best friend. In this gripping, historically accurate graphic novel, ordinary people in different roles – from victim to bystander to perpetrator – make the most difficult, important decisions of their lives.