Thanks so much to all fo you for sharing these great stories, this is exactly what I love to read about! These personal stories.

My Grandfather died when I was 2, so I didn't get to talk to him about his war experiences. His children relayed these things to me of him. He was a farmer and thus very important to the Germans, they needed his crops and livestock to send back to Germany. So they did not bother him much. Only one time was he taken away to dig a bunker on a dike in northwest Holland. He hid a Jewish man in his cellar for 2 weeks, and then a Jewish family in the "bomb" room, that was a hidden room between the barn and the house. His younger brother was taken away to work for the Germans but escaped, and spent 3 years hiding in his brothers house. That is all I know of his expereinces, I just wish I had taken the time to talk with his brother or even my Grandma. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.

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This is a pair of Dutch resistance crystal radios, built into a small metal can, and a matchbox. The image is from a postcard bought at a Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. The matchbox is marked in Swedish, but Swedish matches were sold in Holland for many years..
Scott