The Banner That Spoke Her Name
In 1944, when Allied forces liberated the town of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, the Dutch residents hung every banner, flag, and scrap of colored fabric...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Song of Solomon 2:4.
In 1944, when Allied forces liberated the town of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, the Dutch residents hung every banner, flag, and scrap of colored fabric they could find from their windows. After years of occupation, they wanted the world to know they belonged to freedom again. One photograph from that day shows an elderly woman named Margaretha van den Berg standing beneath a massive orange banner draped from her apartment balcony, weeping with her hands pressed to her chest.…
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