Frieda's Story
Frieda van Hessen was one of Holland's foremost concert and opera singers. At 19, she sang the lead for the Dutch version of Walt Disney's Snow White. At 24, she was the soloist in a performance of Verdi's Requiem for the Dutch Royal Family. Frieda van Hessen won the Grade Diplome at the World Contest in Geneva, Switzerland where she was judged one of the eight best female singers in the world. The future could not have seemed brighter until she was forced into hiding when the Nazis invaded Holland during World War II. Today, this energetic 100-old woman and her book live on to tell about her hiding, miraculous escapes, and determination to survive some of the worst horrors this world has ever seen. In the face of war and oppression, courage, hope, and mercy emerge triumphant!
This powerful, true story of Frieda Roos-van Hessen, a Jewish opera and concert singer, who along with her friend, Mieka, survived one close call after another during the Nazi occupation of Holland as close friends and family were lost to Nazi annihilation.
This powerful, true story of Frieda Roos-van Hessen, a Jewish opera and concert singer, who along with her friend, Mieka, survived one close call after another during the Nazi occupation of Holland as close friends and family were lost to Nazi annihilation.
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In an era in which Nazism is operating once again among disillusioned young people, and in which revisionists are trying to deny the great horror of the Holocaust, it is appropriate for testimonies, such as this one, to come forth to affirm the truth of that dark period in current history and to uplift the hope for a brighter future for generations to come. Frieda story gives:
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