A longtime Salem resident’s role in the Dutch resistance
Annie Clark’s childhood home in Zweeloo, Netherlands, had a crawl space just big enough for two men to huddle together in. It was covered by a rug, and an organ sat on top of it.
In the early 1940s, when Clark was about 10, her family practiced moving the organ, the rug and opening the trap door before closing and covering it. Then they’d do it again, faster.
Eventually, that trap door would hide Jews,…
