With the help of Dutch resistance members, you are smuggled just outside of Amsterdam and hidden in a farmhouse on the Stadskanaal. A garret window provides a little light. Reading has always been your passion, and now you have plenty of time and good books to pass that time. You are also able to indulge your other love, sketching and drawing.
When the allied armies liberate Holland in May 1945, you emerge from your hiding place and return to school. Soon you are able to journey to the United States to join cousins in northern Illinois. In a short time you adjust to American ways and improve your knowledge of the English language. You are accepted at the University of Wisconsin where you study architecture. It is during these years that you meet the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and spend time learning your chosen craft at his center called Taliesin.
Finally, you establish your own architectural practice in Madison, Wisconsin, and spend your days designing buildings. You are especially happy when asked to plan private homes, recalling how awful it was to live in a little attic in Amsterdam. Some years later, you relate the story of your younger days, hoping it will convince others to build a world in which another Holocaust cannot happen.
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