Richard ReitsmaRichard Reitsma is a retired library director who was born in the Netherlands and came to Canada in 1955. He went back to the Netherlands and finished a PhD in Dutch history in 1982. He heard many stories from his parents' generation about the five yars of German occupation but little about the Holocaust. This, his first historical novel, is a fictional portrayal about the sources of that mysterious "forgetfulness," on the part of his parents' generation. Read More Read Less