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Lini R. Grol
Victors and Victims
in WWII
19 pages of poetry.
Saddle-stitch binding. $7
Cover illustration scissorcut "Where Dreams are
Waiting" by Lini R. Grol.
Library
and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Grol, Lini R.,
Victors and victims in
WWII / by Lini R. Grol.
Poems.
ISBN 978-0-9782339-3-8
1. Grol, Lini R.,
--Poetry. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Poetry.
I. Title.
PS8513.R73V53
2007
C811'.54
C2007-900482-2
Lini Richarda Grol is a Canadian Citizen from the Netherlands.
She was a young girl in the Netherlands when Nazi Germany invaded and captured her country in May of 1940. By the time Canadian troops liberated her country in 1945, over 200,000 Dutch people had died. 30,000 died in the hard winter of 1944-45.
In these poems, Lini tells the story of her life during these years. These are remarkable poems.
For her book LIBERATION 1944-1945 she received the Canadian Authors Award from the Canadian Club of Hamilton. Her stories, poems, plays and scissor cut illustrations are in books, and are broadcast in Canada.
Her story LELAWALA is set to music for a ballet, that had its premiere at the Glen Gould Studio June 16,2001.Her WWII poems are read on REMEMBRANCE DAY in services in schools and churches.
She was named POET LAUREATE by the members of the Amateur Press of America.
These WWII poems… speak eloquently but without bitterness of known hardships during WWII: their loss of home, their homeless and fear to be caught in cross-firing while wandering in search for a safe place to rest for at least for while; their constant hunger and losses, of bravery, and tenacity, but also… of finding hope in dreams and tranquility.
Her poems are short, at best one page long. but easy to understand… English is not her inborn language, but she has won prizes for some of her poems and stories.
Reading this modest book about VICTORS and VICTIMS gives an insight about those living and fighting and giving their life during WWII in Holland, and of the empathy and gratitude of the people of HOLLAND to LIBERATORS .
From a Review by T, van den AKKER - KUHNE.
Sample:
WINTER 1944
Rotterdam 1942-1945
Starvation
growled at every door:
and moaned behind the closed windows
that was home to a fatherless family.
The
hollow-eyed, emaciated children
huddle together under worn-out blankets
moaning softly for a little piece of bread.
Their
anguished mother with broken voice
sing songs to them of the good times ahead.
for their sake... wishing to believe in her dreams.
Weakened, the
children listen and almost smile
seeing large piles of sliced and buttered bread,
while she can only stroke their poor little heads.