A Symbol of Hope

By Anita Brinkman

October 31, 2016

A parachute that brought supplies and the hope of liberation to a family in the Netherlands during WWII has since been repurposed into a baptism gown with an even greater meaning of hope.

His baptismal gown dates back to 1946—but the fabric it’s made from goes back a year earlier, to a silk parachute attached to food supplies dropped by the Allied forces just before the liberation of the Netherlands from its occupation by Nazi Germany

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