Our Daughters' Last Hope Quotes

“The German occupation had changed the once beautiful Dutch spirit into a land of minefields containing hatred and cruelty that stripped a person of basic human rights that all should have and enjoy”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“Ironically, a side effect of war was learning how to live each day as it came while hoping and believing in a better tomorrow”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“We cannot control who gets killed in this war. War is full of hate, blood, and destruction. We can only try to help as many as we can. We must let go of certain misfortunes and proceed on”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“Are you willing to hand over your daughters to complete strangers to provide them with a place of safety? Are you willing to do so without the promise that you will ever see them again?”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“One of the toxic traits of prejudice was that people wielded it as a sword to attack others without fully taking the time to get to know the accused. More aggravating was that the attackers didn't want to know the target of their hatred in the first place”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“This not knowing who was on which side - the Nazi side or the Nazi's enemy side - was too complex for her. She just wanted to love her fellow human beings - if only each person could behave humanely”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“She didn't need to ask him to explain himself. That was the oddity of living under threat: communication became tangible without the aid of the spoken word”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“Is that what war accomplished, making enemies from many and friends from a few?”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope