I ended a previous blog discussing The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es, by quoting a letter written in 1942 by the mother of the young Dutch Jewish girl, Lien de Jong, as she was forced to surrender her only child into the hands of strangers in order to save her life from the Nazis during the Occupation of Holland. It struck me as soulful and self-giving, written while her heart must have been breaking. Neither she nor her daughter knew then that they would never see each other again, though Lien’s mother would have had grave intimations of the impending tragedy of the Dutch Jews.