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<p>In 1939, as the Nazi occupation grew from threat to reality, the Jewish population throughout Europe faced heart-wrenching decisions&ndash;to flee and lose their homes or to go into hiding, hoping against all odds to avoid the fate of being discovered. Holocaust survivor Flory A. Van Beek faced this terrible choice, and in this poignant testament of hope she takes us on her personal journey into one of history's darkest hours. <p>Only a teenage girl when the Nazis invaded her neutral homeland of Holland, Flory watched the only life she had ever known disappear. Tearfully leaving her family, Flory tried to escape on the infamous SS <i>Simon Bolivar</i> passenger ship with Felix, the young Jewish man from Germany who would later become her husband. Their voyage brought not safety but more peril as their ship was blown up by Nazi planted mines, one of the first passenger ships destroyed by the Germans during World War II, sending nearly all of its passengers to a watery end. Miraculously, both Flory and Felix survived. <p>After recovering from their injuries in England, they returned to their homeland, overjoyed to be reunited with their families yet shocked to discover their belov

Who reads Flory : A Miraculous Story of Survival?

Author

Flory A. Van Beek

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061857089

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.98 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14