The Story of a World War II Refugee – 100 Life Changing Moments
Connie Van Praag and her family had to flee their home in October of 1942. She was 10 and her brother 12.
Connie’s father had, for a year, planned with the resistance movement to enable his Jewish family to flee from the Nazi occupied Netherlands during World War II.
Trains, carts and trucks were organised to get the family to the south of France, which had yet to be taken by the Germans.
Ashley Wilkes speaks with Connie.
[Filed in October 2015]
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