Of the nearly fifty thousand Jews who had applied to move to the Netherlands, trying to escape the chaos in Germany, only twenty-five thousand had been allowed to enter, not as citizens but as refugees, lost souls without a country of their own. That was what the sisters were now, only they didn’t know it yet. They were outsiders here in Amsterdam, and when some people are less than others, and only a select few have rights, anyone who doesn’t belong can never be safe.
