What happens to children during a war?
Bart van Es’s award-winning book, The Cut Out Girl, is the biography of Hesseline de Jong-Spiero, a Jewish girl fostered by the author’s own family when Holland was occupied by Germany.
The Cut Out Girl [https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-cut-out-girl-9780241978726] is a moving and hugely resonant story of hidden children, trauma and displacement relevant in the retelling today.
As part of the NZ Festival of the Arts in Wellington, Bart van Es, who is a professor of English at Oxford, will be speaking with museums specialist Miri Young-Moir on March 7.
Find out more this event at https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/bart-van-es-the-cut-out-girl/wellington.
