Waitākere College

Book of the Week - Hetty by Hetty Verolme


An extraordinary story of the struggle and survival of a group of children in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, Adapted from her original autobiography written for adults, this moving memoir, edited and pared back for a younger audience, details the motherly role adopted by the adolescent author during her time in the camp.
This moving memoir reveals how Hetty and her siblings survived after they were taken from their parents and encamped at the Children's House in Belsen, Germany.