Recently I was hired to narrate a documentary about the reminiscences of Harry Andringa, a Dutch national who was a 9 year old boy during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WWII.
The documentary launched on October 25th to a standing room only audience with Harry in attendance. It’s an important and very moving account of the horrors, hunger and terrible deprivation suffered by the Dutch and their appreciation of Canadian soldiers who liberated the country. The Dutch have never forgotten their debt to Canadians and give them a parade and millions of tulip bulbs to commemorate the special relationship every Remembrance Day.
I am so honoured and proud to have had a small part in telling this story and it makes me cry every time I watch it. I hope you’ll watch and take it as a cautionary tale about what has happened in the past and what can happen again if humans forget the lessons of intolerance, hate and political rhetoric.
Many thanks to Ken and Cathy Hook for making this film. Please share it far and wide.
