Author: DIDDEN, JACK [1952-] & JAN VAN OUDHEUSDEN (INTRODUCTION),
Title: Waalwijk en de Wereldoorlog. Zes verhalen uit de periode 1939-1945. [Tweede herziene druk; Second revised edition].
Description: Drunen, De Zwaardvisch, 1994. Small 4°. Original coloured and illustrated limp wrappers, covertile in bold red type. 56pp. Many captioned monochrome illustrations after original and sometimes clandestinely taken photographs, featuring Waalwijk community under Nazi oppression: Porraits and goup portraits, topographical views, some facsims. after archivalia, name-list of jewish citizens, name-lis of war victims, chronology of events, namelist of collaborators to the second revised edition, bibliography, table of contents. Dutch language commemmorative collection of private recollections describing the german nazi oppression of Waalwijk city, North Brabant province, well known as a centre of dutch shoe- and tanning industry. Describes in rather detail the fate of the jewish population and local efforts to save them from naci terror, organization of the resistance, clandestine information, dutch collaborators, refugees..by Jan van Oudheusden, Theo Verwiel, Willem Wachtels, Simon van Adelberg, (et.al.). Very fine copy.

Keywords: waalwijk brabant dutch nazis oppression occupation secondworldwar remembrance recollections history terror resistance ww2 netherlands holland resistance collaboration shoeindustry tanningindustry even