The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews / Bernard Wasserstein.

Publication | Library Call Number: D804.6 .W3713 2014

Uniform Title: Gertrude van Tijn en het lot van de Nederlandse Joden. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Wasserstein, Bernard.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014
©2014
Locale: Netherlands
Amsterdam
Language: English

Physical Description: 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
ISBN: 9780674281387
0674281381 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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.

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.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Netherlands.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Jews, German--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
Jewish women--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
Women social workers--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
Tijn, Gertrude van,--1891-1974.
Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam--History.
Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam.
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