Winter in Wartime

Winter in wartime is a book published in 1972 by the Dutch writer Jan Terlouw. The story is about the 15-year-old Michiel who in the fictional North Veluwe village The Vlank lives. He makes the last winter of the Second World War with it, gradually becomes involved in illegal activities and will have to bear a huge responsibility. The book got the Gouden Griffel and in 1973 appeared in 1974 in the Honour List of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. [1]  war winter became under the same title directed byMartin koolhoven. ==The story[ Edit] == It is the winter of 1944 to 1945. Michiel van Beusekom, a boy of 15 years, helps his mother taking care of "tractors" that came with them come rest. These persons originate from the starving West and are looking for food in the rural Northeast. Michiel can no longer go to school because those in Zwolle State and the trip too dangerous because of allied air attacks on vehicles and trains. Go by bike is not an option because his bike has a wooden band (because there are no pneumatic tyres to get more), leaving difficult to cycling falls. Madden guy next door, Dirk, trust him that he in collaboration with a number of others a distribution office is raided. If he is caught must Michiel a letter to a certain Bertus van Gelder ("Bertus hard of hearing") bring. The case backfires and both Dirk as Bertus are arrested. Michiel reads the letter itself and discovers that Dirk an injured British pilot hiding in a shelter in the forest. The letter is a request to Bertus to the pilot to take care of, but since this is Bertus arrested decision Michiel task itself to take on.

Michiel takes care of Jack, as the pilot is called, as well and as evil as that goes. He involves his sister Erica at the care of Jack because they followed a first aid course and Erica and Jack fall in love with each other.Jack learns gradually, partly at the hands of Erica even to speak Dutch reasonably well.

The Germans find a dead soldier and shoot down five hostages out of revenge. One of these hostages is Madden father, Mayor of the village. This is in fact the Germans good, because now they can appoint a Loes Luca as Mayor. Michiel touches deeper involved in illegality if he two Jews the IJssel transfer using the horse and carriage of a Baroness. The Germans try later to arrest the Baroness, but this opposes to the death.Also the Ferryman, Van Dijk, is arrested.

Michiel touches are suspicious: there must be a traitor. Schafter is his first suspect, he is in the eyes of Michiel an untrustworthy man who is shunned by everyone and hangs out with Germans. In addition, it is thought that Schafter is a member of the NSB. Michiel consults with the only person he really trust: Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben is not only a good friend of the family, but is also claim for years in the resistance. Uncle Ben concocts a plan to trap and Michiel seeks Schafter. That kicks did not.

Dirk escapes eventually, but is tortured in concentration camp Amersfoort and is seriously injured at his feet. Nevertheless, he of Garderen, where he has jumped from a train, will come back walk to the Vlank. To also provide him food, asks Michael his neighbor, Dirks mother so, to prepare a food package each week for her son. Dirk then remains in hiding in the same room as Jack.

If the latter pretty cure and it is just spring, he would like to return to his air base to get back to fight. To do this, Michiel invents a plan to Jack with the help of Uncle Ben to smuggle away. He takes Uncle Ben aside and tells him the whole story.

At the time that Uncle Ben Jack retrieves help with Erica's in the cave where Jack has been hiding, Michiel gets all of a sudden a hunch and realizes that the traitor not Schafter, but Uncle Ben is. Any sensitive information that Michael had entrusted to Am assuming that to trust 100%, had Am doorgebriefd to the Germans. So for example, told that he had two Jews on the Michiel IJssel had put, on which the Germans had notified Am so they arrest went the Baroness and the Ferryman. Also the arrest of Dirk and Bertus was Ben's work: he had heard this information when he had bugged the conversation had with Dirk that Michiel. That was when he new so called ' wanhoopshoutjes ' in the garden at the heels was. Uncle Bens motive was not money but belief: Am turns out to be a fanatic to be national-socialist. He had even agreed to bring Jack in person to the German commander. Ben is imprisoned, escaped, but dies during this attempt by a British air raid on an ammunition car, which explodes. After the war John found out that nota bene Schafter a resistance hero was: he hid Jews in hiding. His pro-German attitude he had adopted when he noticed that the Germans began to suspect him. That was entirely played.

The difference between ' good ' and ' error ' turns out to be a lot more vague than thought. The resistance heroes Dries Ganji and prove his own ' uncle ' are, respectively, a black merchant and a traitor. The true resistance heroes are an alleged Loes Luca, a modest schoolmaster (the leader of the resistance), not to mention he and his sister. ==Television and film[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The VARA began in september 1975 with the screening of the television series war winter, based on the novel of the same name by Ta. Aart Staartjes directed this series and it was not only a success at the youth, but also in adults. In 2006 appeared on the TV series on dvd. The actors included: Paul R Nair, leontien Ceulemans, Groin Francs, Ton Lensink and Sacco van der Made.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film adaptation oorlogswinter by Martin koolhoven, premiered on 27 november 2008. The film was successful in Netherlands and Belgium, and has more than 1,500,000 visitors.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]