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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Bart van Es discusses his book The Cut Out Girl at the 2020 New Zealand Arts Festival
Description: Bart van Es discusses The Cut Out Girl, his remarkable true story of how a Jewish girl in the Netherlands was hidden by his family from the Nazis during World War II. Listen to Bart van Es talk with Miri Young-Moir in this highlight from the 2020 New Zealand Festival writers' programmeThe Cut Out Girl is a harrowing true story about a young girl's struggle to survive Nazi persecution, and a man's attempt to unveil his family's secrets about her connection to them.Bart van Es's award-winning book is the biography of Hesseline...