Innocence Denied: A Holocaust Childhood) by Johannes Krane is a riveting memoir about a 10-year-old boy who, along with his family, fought for survival during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. Johannes and his brother, Dick, engaged in perilous and illegal acts in order to survive and support their deaf and mute parents. And while they were successful in saving their family from death and starvation, the ordeal stripped them of their childhood innocence.“We grew up knowing only a world of war and crime” – Johannes