Throughout the centuries women have “passed on the comfort” by creating blankets and quilts. These have given warmth in time of crisis: sickness, mourning, and war. During the morning hours of this seminar we will be looking at the story written in the book Passing on the Comfort (An Keuning-Tichelaar and Lynn Kaplanian-Buller). An was a member of the resistance movement in the Netherlands during WWII. Just after the war ended, she provided sanctuary for Mennonites fleeing from Russian forces.

North American Mennonites heard of the need for comfort and sent hundreds of quilts over to England. They were dispersed to Holland from a house on Shepherds Hill, run by the Mennonite Central Committee, just a few doors down from where the LMC is now. Decades later Lynn discovered some of these quilts in An’s house and decided their story needed to be told. Thus the book was written.