The Comfort Bird Format:Paperback We lit our candles and

We lit our candles and the little tree promptly caught fire

My mother was in a cell with other women

he witnessed horrific sadism inflicted on political prisoners and other ‘undesirables’ imprisoned in SS-camps

and other foods

the Van den Berg family (mother Trien

The Comfort Bird Format:Paperback We lit our candles andThe Comfort Bird follows the experiences of three generations of two families of farm laborers from a small town in the Northern Netherlands. One family moves across the ocean and passes through Ellis Island in 1911 to seek their fortune on the American Prairies. The second family is too much rooted in the heavy soil of the old country to emigrate. In a strange twist of fate after D Day World War II brings the families together again, on opposing