Oma's Story in Times of Peace and War: A Memoir

Mia McLeod shares the story of her life, starting in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1930. The first 10 years describe a happy family: her father was school principal in a small village on the eastern border with Germany and north of the big rivers, the Rhine, Meuse, and Waal; her mother, a teacher turned full-time house wife; her brother and sister. Then followed World War II, with occupation by the Nazis from 1940-1945, and how they survived the hunger winter, 1944-'45. After finishing hig...