Miriam Troostwyk - May 28, 1998 and June 3, 1999
Talking with Children
Well, so you didn't talk--well, you, you told your children. I guess that's, that's ???...
Later I told Alice and I went with her to the house with her girlfriend, which was a Jewish girl too. And we--I showed her. And then I gave her books and she was interested. And she was--later she was reading books about it and...
You went to the house in, in...
Yes. She saw the house.
In Velp.
Yeah.
She took a trip back to Holland?
No.
Oh, she was born, she was born in Holland.
She was maybe fourteen years old. I took her to the ho...house and I showed her where we were hiding in the house, because we had a real hiding uh, it was--let's say, an attic with two little rooms in the attic. We had the biggest room. And there was a corridor to go to our room from the attic. Um, and they made a--like this uh, with a door.
Like a bookcase.
Yes. And we had to go through the bookcase in there. But they could find it immediately, but I think it was pretty safe. And it--our window, it was like this, but smaller, the half of it...
Uh-huh.
in our bedroom that was uh, over because the roof was like this and it was divided over the neighbors. So in my mind I thought when you are in the--back in the garden, they think that this window is from the neighbors. We will be safe in this room.
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