Passing on the Comfort.

Passing On The Comfort

Lynn Kaplanian-Buller and An Keuning-Tichelaar

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Nazi occupied Holland found An risking her life caring for war-time refugees, including hiding a Jewish baby in her hand-luggage when on a ferry that draws gunfire--distracting a German guard at a bridge so a fugitive without a pass can be bicycled across; and at one time stuffing documents under a body lying in state in a room in her home when German soldiers suddenly launch a raid. During those years of occupation, there were groups of women across North America meeting in sewing circles to make quilts for devastated families throughout Europe, doing what they could to provide comfort and courage during an horrific war. Twenty years later Lynn comes to Amsterdam, discovering that the quilts her grandmother, her aunts, and other older women in her childhood church had made for war ravaged families in Holland still survived and warmly regarded. Lynn goes searching for the owners of 19 of these work-worn these quilts and their individual stories. This is how she encounters An with whom she collaborates to tell these stories enhanced with war time photos revealing these quilts to be more than just needlecraft treasures from a desperate yesteryear, but enduring testaments that will inspire today's needlecrafters not to turn away from helping others with the fruits of their own handmade labors. Passing On The Comfort: The War, The Quilts, And The Women Who Made A Difference should be read by every needlecrafter in every generation.