Louis Rautenbach is die outeur van verskeie boeke waarvan sommige ook in Engels beskikbaar is. Hy woon aan die Oos Kaapse kusdorp Jeffreysbaai waar hy sy artistiese vermoëns uitleef. Hy is ook deeltyds betrokke by geestelike werk, berading en begeleiding.
With love from Tekapo
They spend time together for old times’ sake before parting ways to join the war in Europe.
Kevin Welsh, an infantryman, and Helen Townsend, a nurse, both from Tekapo, had discovered the wonder of their love the night before. Today, the two young people had to report for service after the Prime Minister made New Zealand the first country to declare war against Germany.
Memories of their passionate night follow the two lovers until the end of that war. Then, their love faces new challenges as sorrow crosses their path again. Never could they have realised that this war would steal their youth.
With love from Tekapo is a must-read for readers with a passion for history and love stories.
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‘n Blom uit Pole
Czeslawa. Die uitdrukking op die gesig van hierdie Poolse meisie op drie foto’s sê alles wat verkeerd is in ʼn wêreld waar wreedaards toegelaat is om te heers. Net soos blomknoppies, is baie kinders se ontluikende jeug koelbloedig in Auschwitz vertrap lank voordat hulle in hul menswees tot wasdom kon blom.
Czeslawa. Net veertien jaar oud, maar reeds vasgevang en wreed blootgestel aan die barbaarsheid van die oorlog en die sadisme in die Nazi konsentrasiekamp.
Czeslawa. Al wat oorgebly het, is drie foto’s wat in die doodskamp van haar geneem is.
Die verhaal van hierdie eens vrolike, vrye dogtertjie is met groot respek en uiterste eerbied geskryf om hulde te bring aan haar en die miljoene ander kinders wat aan die hand van die Duitsers gesterf het.
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A flower from Poland
Was there any hope at all that maybe soon or perhaps one day, she will have an opportunity to play among the red poppies in the field near her village in the springtime again?
Czeslawa, the expression of this little Polish girl in three of this photo’s exposed what’s wrong in the world when savages are allowed to rule. Just like a flower bud, many children’s budding youth were trampled on mercilessly in Auschwitz long before they could blossom into adulthood.
Czeslawa. Only fourteen years old, but trapped and made brutally vulnerable to the barbarity of war and the sadism, hate and torture in a Nazi Concentration camp.
Czeslawa. All that remains were the three photographs taken of her just before her death.
The story of this once vibrant-cheerful girl was written with great respect and admiration to pay tribute to her and the other hundreds of thousands children who not only lost their dreams and youth but their lives at the hands of the Germans.
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