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Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families.

En hjertegribende historie om medmenneskelighed og splittelse i en hollandsk familie og om en jødisk piges skæbne under 2. Verdenskrig. Under 2. Verdenskrig skjuler en hollandsk familie den jødiske pige Lien. Efter krigen adopterer de hende, men der bliver stridigheder mellem Lien og hendes adoptivmor, familien splittes og Lien bliver skåret ud af familiens historie. Halvtreds år senere opdager Bart Van Es, der er barnebarn af Liens adoptivmor, at der har været et skjult medlem af familien.