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The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews / Bernard Wasserstein.
LIBRA D804.6 .W3713 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wasserstein, Bernard.
- Standardized Title:
- Gertrude van Tijn en het lot van de Nederlandse Joden. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tijn, Gertrude van, 1891-1974.
- Tijn, Gertrude van.
- Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- History.
- Women social workers.
- Jewish women.
- Jews, German.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Netherlands.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Jews, German--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Jewish women--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Women social workers--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam--History.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- "Ruined woman"
- Rebuilding lives
- "Death ships"
- Gertrude's war
- Mission to Lisbon
- Crisis of conscience
- Help for the departing
- Trading with the enemy
- To the bitter end
- Last exit from Amsterdam
- Aftermath
- A reckoning
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "An earlier version of this book was published in Dutch as Gertrude van Tijn en het lot van de Nederlandse Joden by Nieuw Amsterdam, ©2013"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674281387
- 0674281381
- OCLC:
- 861478330
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