Our Mother's War: A Biography of a Child of the Dutch Resistance - Softcover

Mel Fiske; Christina Radich; Laurina Radich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595469493 ISBN 13: 9780595469499

Publisher: iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

Christina Radich and Daniel Fiske began dating in high school, back in 1972. This book is the unlikely result of their teen-aged romance.Christina wanted to capture her mother's story of life in Nazi-occupied Holland. She didn't know how or where to start. Dan suggested that his father, Mel, a former newspaper reporter, could steer her to the starting line. Mel advised Christina to get a recorder and tapes, and ask questions. For the next 15 or so years, she taped her mother's recollections up until her death in 1994.It took several years for Christina to find Lynette Bourne, a medical transcriber, to copy all the tapes. Then Christina brought the transcriptions to Mel Fiske more than ten years after the death of her mother. What do I do now? she asked plaintively. Mel took the unedited transcriptions. He began researching the history of the Dutch people under the Nazi occupation to place the story of Christina's mother in proper historical perspective. Our Mother's War is the story of Aluzia Van Dalen but also that of the Dutch people from 1940 to 1945, the darkest of times for them.Aluzia went through the war with one thought: survival. "I haven't lived yet," she told herself. Our Mother's War recounts her struggle to live.

About this title

About the Author:

In his memoir,Radical, published by iUniverse in 2002, Mel Fiske told of his work as a labor organizer and newspaperman. He now lives in California with his wife, poet and novelist, Diana O'Hehir.Christina Radich, a landscape designer in Santa Rosa, California, has spent her adult years finding a place in history for her mother?s life.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0595469493
• ISBN 13: 9780595469499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114