It reeled, burst into flames, and started to come down, scattering parts as it fell. there was the noise of anti-aircraft guns, the peaceful sky was rent with exploding shells. So, to protect her, the family forged a birth certificate for Trixie and dressed up another person to be a red-headed family member. Trixie was a redheaded baby and she didn’t look like a Verhagen. This was complicated because the neighbors wondered where the new Verhagen baby came from. Verhagen would take her and adopt her, which she did. To save Trixie’s life, her mother placed her in the bushes outside their home hoping that Mrs. Trixie’s family were Dutch Jews, and they knew that they were going to be sent to the concentration camps. One of the saddest situations in this story is that of Trixie. This meant that many of the Dutch starved. When the Dutch railway people went into hiding by order of the queen, the trains bringing food and other supplies to Germany and to Holland stopped. Now there were no more trains to transport cattle, food, fuel, and men to Germany, but there also were no trains to bring food to the cities, and many Dutch people faced starvation.” The Dutch railway people obeyed at once, though it meant going into hiding. “ It was the Queen herself who requested it. One of the real hardships in the German occupation of Holland is starvation.
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