Quotes from Annejet van der Zijl

They knew where they were going by then—Ravensbrück, the concentration camp set up by Himmler in 1938 for all the women who did not fit the Aryan Kinder-Küche-Kirche ideal: criminals, prostitutes, Roma, and, in recent years, increasing numbers of Resistance fighters from all over Europe.

What's more, divorces there could be granted on the grounds of simple infidelity, while in America that only counted if the extramarital affair had taken place in the marital home.

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On July 14, 1942, the first trains left for Westerbork in Drenthe.

Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness," he said. "It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

If you no longer had a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past?

If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again.

As long as I love books and flowers and travel—and my friends—and good food, as I do now, I want no allowances made for me!

The rich aristocrats who spent their weekdays "shearing lambs" on Wall Street

There was, for example, one group in Rotterdam that refused to help Jewish people in any way, shape, or form, because they believed that the Jews had brought this misery on themselves by crucifying Christ.

From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.

In general, they weren't particularly intelligent and thus easily influenced, and thanks to the unusual wartime circumstances, they suddenly found themselves wielding a power they had never had before.

If one has no steady belief and foundation to one's life, it is all hopelessness and tears,