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The Temecula Valley Historical Society's April Program

Maria Van Lieshout, the author of Song of a Blackbird, will tell how she discovered documents her grandparents wrote decades earlier about living in Holland under Nazi occupation. Maria will tell how she learned details about the bombing of her mother’s childhood home and how she discovered her grandfather was part of the Amsterdam Resistance. Her story includes how her grandfather's close friend Frits was involved in the largest bank heist in European history to fund the Dutch Resistance, an activity that cost him his life afterward

Copies of Maria's books Song of a Blackbird will be available for purchase that evening.