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100 1  Groen, David.
245 00 Jew Face |bA Story of Love and Heroism in Nazi-occupied Holland.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |bAuthorhouse, |c2012.
300    224 pages ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520    During the Nazi occupation of Holland, 1940-1945, the Jewish community there suffered devastation on a scale as great as in any other nation in Europe. Only a small percentage of Dutch Jews survived the systematic annihilation. The land was flat and easy to patrol, people's backgrounds and religions were well documented, and the physical appearance of a Jew was often obvious and very distinctive. In this environment, love was difficult, but not impossible. This memoir tells a love story that grew during the occupation, that of Nardus and Sipora Groen, as written by their son, author David Groen. It is the story of two Jews who were drawn together by the basic goal of survival. One was an Orthodox Jewish man who evaded the grasp and arrest by the Nazis numerous times, although each time as a member of the resistance and never as a Jew. The other was a woman whose innocent beauty and Jewish-looking face compelled her to move from place to place and exhibit an almost unimaginable courage in order to avoid detection and almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Together, and with the help of many special people, including a couple whose righteousness reached the highest level one can imagine, they lived to tell their story.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Groen, Nardus.
600 10 Rodrigues-Lopes, Sipora Catharina.
650  0 Jews |zNetherlands |xHistory |y20th century.
651  0 Netherlands |xHistory |yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
720    Groen, David
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