When Melis and his friend Piet were rounded up by a Sonderkommando in the middle of a January night and arrested together with a comrade from their resistance group, they knew who had betrayed them. They couldn't fathom what horrors awaited them in captivity, on transport and in a German camp. Melis could rely on his family in Groningen. He didn't yet know how important their Christian faith and friendship would prove to be for his survival.
Roel Burger, PhD in Political and Social Sciences and former scholarly employee at the Anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam, recently discovered his father's wartime correspondence in his parents' estate. These intimate letters reveal how an average Christian Dutch family was affected by the war and how it was dealt with within the family.