The Walls Came Tumbling Down (book)
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a novel written by Henriette Roosenburg
was published in 1957. It relates the story of four young people and their ordeals after being captured and condemned to death by Nazis. The protagonists are held as Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), known as NNs.
Henriette Roosenburg
Henriette Roosenburg was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner, perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II...
was published in 1957. It relates the story of four young people and their ordeals after being captured and condemned to death by Nazis. The protagonists are held as Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), known as NNs.
Characters
- Zip – 28-year-old female narrator, caught March 1944.
- Nell – 30, female, caught November 1943
- Joke – 28, female, caught May 1944
- Dries – 26, male, caught April 1944