The Link in the Chain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wynberg-de Vries, Judic.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton : Academic Studies Press, 2025.

Summary:

The Link in the Chain chronicles the survival of a young Dutch Jewish family through the Nazi occupation of Holland from 1940 to 1945. But it is also a love story. Just days before the Germans invaded, 19-year-old Judic de Vries married Bram Wynberg, the love of her life. Together they spent the next four years in hiding, making countless life-and-death decisions, separated from their families and even their own children. In spite of devastating losses, Judic and Bram rebuilt a life in Holland and then started over again in Canada. This memoir reveals their courage and hopes, and Judic’s determination to connect us to all that was taken.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Prologue

1 Amsterdam

2 Our Meeting

3 The Refugees

4 Our Engagement

5 Tension

6 Breaking Up

7 Our Wedding

8 Our Lost Honeymoon

9 One Day on the Front Line

10 Tired Soldiers and Nervous Police

11 On the Move

12 Max and Bram: Soldiers

13 Smuggling Merchandise

14 The Nazi in the Store

15 Anti-Jew Laws

16 Sign of the Times

17 Medical Examination

18 Uncertainty

19 A Second Son

20 Family Code

21 Walking Away from Home

22 Trying to Adjust

23 Betrayal . . .

24 Hiding Out

25 The Trains

26 Were Our Children Safe?

27 An Unreliable Nephew

28 A Reason for Living

29 Needing a Doctor

30 Betrayed Again

31 Our Baby, the Nurse, and Me

32 The Castle in Wapenveld

33 Bram Standing Invisible

34 Secret Police

35 The Park-keeper

36 A Hiding Place

37 A Dangerous Man

38 Radio Orange

39 Hunger Winter—1944

40 Canadian Soldiers

41 Suddenly Free

42 Coming Home

43 So Many Lost

44 Displaced Persons

45 Painful Words

46 The “Safe-Keepers”

47 Our Shul

48 Showing Our Scars

49 Alida’s Surgery

50 JAZ—Jewish Amusement Zwolle

51 Hotel Wijnberg

52 Partir C’est Mourir un Peu

53 The New World

54 Starting to Settle

55 Hurricane Hazel

56 Finding Our Place

57 Nightmares

58 Remembering Our Roots

59 Leo and Sheila, Claire and David

60 Jack and Ida

61 Alice and Alan

62 Tradition

63 Ik heb je lief

Epilogue

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-87196-29-9

OCLC:

1482814748