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Squirrel is alive : a teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French underground / Mary Rostad, with Susan T. Hessel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Servant leadership seriesPublisher: Wheat Ridge, Colorado : Fulcrum Publishing, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: [Second edition] / revised and edited by Stephen FeinbergDescription: xiii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781682753774
  • 1682753778
Other title:
  • Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French underground
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "In Squirrel Is Alive, Mary Rostad tells the harrowing story of her time working in the Belgian resistance and French underground during World War II. As a teenager in 1940, Mary was horrified by the war unfolding around her as the Nazis invaded her home country of Belgium. Only fifteen years old, and unable to ignore the atrocities she witnessed every day, she started working for the Belgian resistance by passing out literature and thwarting the cruelty of the Nazis. However, after watching friends mysteriously disappear and realizing the danger her work posed for her family and friends, Mary made the brave decision to leave Belgium alone and on foot, with only the clothes on her back to continue her work with the dream of arriving in England to join the Free Belgium Arm. Along the way, Mary dodged bullets and had a front-row seat for D-Day, escaping danger at every turn. Describing the brutality of Hitler's Nazis in vivid detail, she paints a terrifying picture of the war, but one that ultimately ends in triumph"-- Provided by publisher.
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YA Book YA Book Main Library YA NonFiction New 940.5349 R839 Available 33111011194103
YA Book YA Book Northport Library YA NonFiction 940.5349 R839 Available 33111011139066
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A sure to be classic in Holocaust literature from an underrepresented voice.



Squirrel is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground is the incredible story of Mary Rostad's early life. Rostad was 16 years old when the Nazis conquered her home city of Brussels in 1940. She joined the resistance movement, serving in Belgium and later France, primarily as a courier of underground documents. At the end of World War II, Rostad met U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Allen Rostad.

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"Originally published in 2012 by the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University."--Title page verso.

"In Squirrel Is Alive, Mary Rostad tells the harrowing story of her time working in the Belgian resistance and French underground during World War II. As a teenager in 1940, Mary was horrified by the war unfolding around her as the Nazis invaded her home country of Belgium. Only fifteen years old, and unable to ignore the atrocities she witnessed every day, she started working for the Belgian resistance by passing out literature and thwarting the cruelty of the Nazis. However, after watching friends mysteriously disappear and realizing the danger her work posed for her family and friends, Mary made the brave decision to leave Belgium alone and on foot, with only the clothes on her back to continue her work with the dream of arriving in England to join the Free Belgium Arm. Along the way, Mary dodged bullets and had a front-row seat for D-Day, escaping danger at every turn. Describing the brutality of Hitler's Nazis in vivid detail, she paints a terrifying picture of the war, but one that ultimately ends in triumph"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134).

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