SELLING NATURAL PEARL STRAND

by Genevieve Leunissen
(Youngsville, La. USA)

I ACQUIRED A STRAND OF ANIQUE NATURALPEARLS FROM MY MOTHER WHICH WAS PART OF HER ESTATE. PRIOR TO HER DEATH SHE TOLD ME SHE PURCHASED THEM FROM A WOMAN WHO WANTED TO IMMIGRATE TO THE U.S. FROM HOLLAND AFTER THE WAR AND NEEDED THE MONEY TO MAKE THE VOYAGE. THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE DUTCH UNDERGROUND WHICH HELPED OVERTAKE HITLER BY MEANS OF KEEPING OUR ALLIES INFORMED AS TO WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING IN HOLLAND.