Author: WASSERSTEIN, BERNARD
Title: The Ambiguity of Virtue. Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch jews.
Description: Cambridge Mass. and London, Engl., Harvard University Press, 2014. 334 pp., with a portrait of Gertrude van Tijn as frontispice. Good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket., rearside of dustjacket and cloth slightly bumped at long edge.. First edition in English after the Dutch edition of 2013: Gertrude van Tijn en het lot der Nederlandse joden. In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle-aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers? ISBN: 9780674281387

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