Don't betray me - Melinda Braaksma

Don't Betray Me -The Secret of Amsterdam 

It is 1943. The war is raging, but eight-year-old Peter's life continues much the same as it always has. He knows that the Germans are the Jews, but there are not many Jews in amsterdam-West. When an English plane crashes into Peter's house, he and his family have to look for another place to live. They find a house on the Oudeschans in the centre of Amsterdam, in the middle of the Jewish quarter,an area previously inhabited by Jews but now largely empty because of the war.

When a dark-haired girl suddenly appears in his room in the middle of the night, claiming that Pieter is living in her house, the reality of the war begins to mingle with his imagination. The girl seems to come from another reality, and she gives him an important and highly secret assignment. But time is running out: a harsh winter is approaching and the war is getting grimmer. Can Pieter find what the girl is looking for before the Germans catch her? Melinda Braaksma processed the many childhood memories of her father Henk Braaksma into a fictional story about innocence, hope and friendship against the historical backdrop of Amsterdam during World War II, with the question: What would you do?