BOAS, J.H.

Religious resistance in Holland.

London, Netherlands Government Information Bureau, 1945. 64 pp. Internally very good. Orig. wraps, spine slightly damaged, minor dampstaining to frontcover. World War II. WWII. Author was a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism.

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Book number: 9954

Catalogue: Holocaust/Netherlands

VOUTE, PETER, RYNDERS, HENRY

Only a free man. War memories of two Dutch doctors (1940-1945) by Peter Voute. With the journals of Henry Rynders.

Santa Fe, The Lightning Tree, 1982. 188 pp. Illustrated. Good copy. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. Dustj. damaged. The authors, both Dutch doctors, participated in the Resistance movement known as Medisch Contact, a secret underground society formed at the time the Royal Netherlands Medical Society was outlawed by the Nazis.

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Book number: 5554

Catalogue: Holocaust/Netherlands

WOLF, DIANE L.

Beyond Anne Frank. Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland

Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 2007. 391 pp. Very good copy. Paperback. The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house - the most visited site in the Netherlands - has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story continues to be discussed and analyzed, her experience as a hidden child in wartime Holland is anomalous - as this book brilliantly demonstrates. Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Diane L. Wolf paints a compelling portrait of Holocaust survivors whose experiences were often diametrically opposed to the experiences of those who suffered in concentration camps. Although the war years were tolerable for most of these children, it was the end of the war that marked the beginning of a traumatic time, leading many of those interviewed here to remark, 'My war began after the war.' This first in-depth examination of hidden children vividly brings to life their experiences before, during, and after hiding and analyzes the shifting identities, memories, and family dynamics that marked their lives from childhood through advanced age. Wolf also uncovers anti-Semitism in the policies and practices of the Dutch state and the general population, which historically have been portrayed as relatively benevolent toward Jewish residents. ISBN: 9780520248106

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Book number: 52028

Catalogue: Holocaust/Netherlands