Ordinary citizens did terrible things, let terrible things happen, or had terrible things happen to them. But when you read historical accounts and primary documents and listen to oral histories, you realize that it didn’t feel black and white at the time. On a broader scale, what I find really fascinating about World War II is that when we look at it now, we see it as the last great example of when we knew absolutely what was right and absolutely what was wrong. I didn’t know enough about that history, and I had no idea that there was a camp that had both German and Japanese families in it. If you’re like me, the Japanese internment probably only made a few pages of your high school history books, and maybe the class didn’t even get up to that part of the book. I learned about Crystal City from a footnote while I was researching my first book, and it made me realize that there was a whole chapter of American history that I didn’t know a lot about. My first book came out of always having been interested in The Diary of Anne Frank and realizing I only knew about Amsterdam from her perspective-which, of course, was inside an annex. This is your second YA book set during the World War II The Girl in the Blue Coat took place in 1943 Amsterdam.
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