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Examines the great Dutch artist and his work through his letters and painting reproductions.

Cyrla, a young Jewish woman from Poland living with Dutch relatives, seeks temporary shelter from the Nazis by posing as her pregnant cousin Anneke who has committed suicide after being granted a place in the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies, and must learn to trust Karl, the soldier who impregnated and deserted Anneke, for her continued safety.

Chronicles the career of seventeenth-century painter Jan Vermeer, and presents and briefly discusses more than thirty of his masterpieces.

Retells the legend of the Dutch sea captain destined to sail forever over the seven seas unless he finds the love of a faithful girl.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding.

Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world.