Fields of Orange

Johanna Francis watched the Nazis take Amsterdam, her wealthy family active in the resistance, sheltering a Jewish family and running an underground newspaper despite the Gestapo HQ in their street. After the war, she married a penniless Welsh farmer and theirs was a truly remarkable love story. 57 photographs.

• Editor’s note
• Part I: Hanny’s Memoir
  • Preface: Hell’s Neighbour
  • Chapter 1: Philosophy and Patisserie
  • Chapter 2: Hunger Winter
  • Chapter 3: The Man at the Door
  • Chapter 4: Carriages for Queen Hanny
  • Chapter 5: Summer and Siberia
  • Chapter 6: The Boy and the Beetroot
  • Chapter 7: On the Buses
  • Chapter 8: Art of Broken Desks
• Part II: Alan and Jantien’s Memories of their Parents
  • Chapter 9: Freedom, Ghosts and Pig Swill
  • Chapter 10: Dad
  • Chapter 11: Hanny
  • Postscript
• Images