I've spent the past year following Nik Jakobs across two continents for the
@jdforward. He's a Jewish farmer who is rescuing sacred objects from closing congregations across small-town America — an ark, a bimah, a Torah, stained glass windows — and building a new synagogue on a two-acre cornfield in Illinois.
For the latest chapter in this series, I flew with Nik and his family to the Netherlands — to the village where nearly 100 people kept the secret that saved his family from the Nazis.
What Nik found 80 years later surprised him: The town was still keeping his family’s story alive. There was a memorial, a museum exhibit and, a sold-out play that revealed parts of the story his family had never known — including a secret love affair and a baby born in hiding.
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