Education
She has a Doctor of Philosophy in history and currently works as an historian and novel writer
She has a Doctor of Philosophy in history and currently works as an historian and novel writer
She wrote her first book when she was fifteen, about two German child soldiers at the Normandy beaches in June 1944. All of her novels are historical novels, capturing a wide range of themes and historical periods. Her books are written in Dutch, but have been translated into German, Danish, Swedisch, French, Korean, Arabic and English.
The War Within These Walls was published in the United States in October 2013.
lieutenant is a heavily illustrated novel that dramatically captures the brutal reality of the Warsaw Ghetto during World World War World War II The story is about a young Jew"s struggle to survive and his participation in the 1943 uprising. Kirkus Reviews called it an "unrelenting, heart-rending insight into the hell that the Nazis created.
Gripping, powerful, shattering". The book is illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki and translated by Laura Watkinson.