Child Prisoner of War

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Review: Hildegard writes from the perspective of a young child brought up in war torn Denmark. The pain, the hunger, the cold, related in a way that only one who has experienced can tell. This is a commendable work for a first time writer with a story that was crying to be told and which the reader needs to be aware of. I would like to see more works by Hildegard. I would like to read her accounts of life in the United States after the war.

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Summary: A wonderful account of a subject little has been written on.
Review: Hildegard writes from the perspective of a young child brought up in war torn Denmark. The pain, the hunger, the cold, related in a way that only one who has experienced can tell. This is a commendable work for a first time writer with a story that was crying to be told and which the reader needs to be aware of. I would like to see more works by Hildegard. I would like to read her accounts of life in the United States after the war.

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Review: I find the comments about this book at bit disturbing. They give a distorted view of Denmark. Remember that Denmark was the only country that helped their Jews. Out of more than 6000 Jews, about 500 were captured, and of those less than 100 perished in the concentration camps in Germany. The rest were ferried to Sweden by Danes looking out for and wanting to help their neighbors, friends, anyone persecuted by the Nazis.

There were absolutely no concentration camps in Denmark neither before, during nor after the war. There was a transit camp (Frøslev-lejren) used by the Germans during the war to hold Danish prisoners until they were shipped to mainly 3 concentration camps in Germany. Also, there was no retaliation going on. After the war, the camp was one place (among many) used to hold the many thousands of refugees that came to Denmark during the end of the war. They were taken care of, fed and housed.

While I don't doubt that Mrs. Lindstrom had absolutely terrible experiences during these most tragic of times, facts should not be misrepresented.