The Lioness of Leiden

The Lioness of Leiden
by Robert Loewen

280 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication April 4, 2023

This edition
Format
280 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication
April 4, 2023 by Greenleaf Book Group Press
ISBN
9798886450224

The Dutch resistance of the Nazi occupation was beyond heroic. Hetty is a survivor of the persecution of the Dutch people and Jews during world war II. The struggle of conscious and moral strength tested more at that time than any other place in history. Her story is passed on to the next generation in family stories. Robert Loewen used his grandmothers struggle to base the story, it is fictional in this edition. He shows the personal struggle of the men and women who refused to allow the Third Reich persecution of their countrymen, and others. Many of the resistance lost their lives in the struggle, towns faced persecutions of officers as they struggled to punish and exterminate the resistance. It was a dark time, with many grey options. The Dutch protected their neighbors as best they could, although the struggle of spies, and collaborators made it very difficult. This story looks at the cost of war, the cost of evil, and the triumph of the human nature.