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Beyond the Moorland The Bittersweet Remembrance of Life in a Czechoslovakian Village before the First World War One by one leaves fall to the earth. "leaves from the tree of my life Pick them up Turn them over They can tell you a story of bygone days" Thus begins Ilse Read in these beautifully written memoirs. The most vivid memories derive from the village of Habstein in northern Bohemia. The family moved to this little Czechoslovakian town in 1913 when the author was eight years old. It was in Habstein that her father, a Protestant minister, established the Sonnenhof, the "Home for the...

History unfolds as Ilse Evelijn Veere Smit joins writer Dorothy Read to break decades of silence in this poignant, profoundly affecting memoir. End the Silence tells the story of Ilse, an Indo-European born into an idyllic childhood in the colonial society of the Dutch East Indies. Ilse's privileged life was forever changed when the Japanese invaded her homeland during World War II. She recounts her years of internment in a Japanese concentration camp on Java. Then, at the war's end she walked out of Camp Halmaheira only to walk into the bloody Indonesian revolution where she was targeted for...