Dominique Van de Straete grew up in Belgium listening to her grandfather’s memories of World War II. Benoit Vandervondelen would talk about the German occupation, the Belgian resistance and how he’d brought food to a group of Jews hiding in the forest. What her grandfather didn’t tell her, Van de Straete devoured in books.
Daniel Blevins grew up in Harlan County, Ky., with his grandmother’s stories about the brothers she lost during World War II. Catherine Blevins spoke of a disappointing family mystery. While two of her brothers died in the war, only one body returned to Kentucky. Harvey Burkhart was laid to rest in Harlan County, but Catherine Blevins died in June 2009 not knowing where her other brother, Henry Lee, or “H.L.,” Burkhart was buried.
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