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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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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