- Summary
- "In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul. In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk, with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia -- chose to break his country's diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom through the ruse of issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curacao on the other side of the world... Most of the Jews whom Zwartendijk helped escape survived the war, and they and their descendants settled in America, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Zwartendijk and Sugihara were true heroes, and yet they were both shunned by their own countries after the war, and their courageous, unstinting actions have remained relatively unknown."-- provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Rechtvaardigen. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Brokken, Jan, author.
- Published
- Brunswick, Victoria ; London, United Kingdom ; Minneapolis, Minnesota : Scribe Publications, 2021
©2021
- Locale
- Netherlands
Lithuania
- Contents
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Mister Radio Philips
One last breath of peace
Losing your company
Scales and cacti
Erni Christianus
Between Prague and Rotterdam
Aletrino
Stalin in the shop windows
Peppy Sternheim Lewin
Nathan Gutwirth
Not a chance in hell. But who knows?
The manual for consular officials
The white ship with the black hull
The independent-minded Sugihara
The yard of the Lietūkis garage
Comrade Nina
The fiat: the party leader and the influential dwarf
Pan Tadeusz
Chanson russe
Please forgive me. I cannot write any more.
Every man for himself
The Swedish route
An overlooked date
Towards the ends of the east
No way forward, no way back
The house with the green shutters in Kobe
Zorach Warhaftig
Zofia and Count Romer
Odd is death; even is life
Escort to Shanghai
The secret of Kaunas
Mauthausen
A secret burial
Mister Frits
Hey! Blow! Scream! Bang!
From Avenue Joffre to the ghetto
So many names on a wall
Everything's fine in Psychiko
The reprimand
The need to know
Under a spruce or pine tree
No news from the survivors
The exodus from Egypt
Whoever saves one life saves a whole world
The Holland 977 case
A wedding in Antwerp
Pebbles on a grave.
- Other Authors/Editors
- McKay, David, 1973- translator.
- Notes
-
Originally published in Dutch as De rechtvaardigen. Amsterdam : Atlas Contact, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
Mister Radio Philips -- One last breath of peace -- Losing your company -- Scales and cacti -- Erni Christianus -- Between Prague and Rotterdam -- Aletrino -- Stalin in the shop windows -- Peppy Sternheim Lewin -- Nathan Gutwirth -- Not a chance in hell. But who knows? -- The manual for consular officials -- The white ship with the black hull -- The independent-minded Sugihara -- The yard of the Lietūkis garage -- Comrade Nina -- The fiat: the party leader and the influential dwarf -- Pan Tadeusz -- Chanson russe -- Please forgive me. I cannot write any more. -- Every man for himself -- The Swedish route -- An overlooked date -- Towards the ends of the east -- No way forward, no way back -- The house with the green shutters in Kobe -- Zorach Warhaftig -- Zofia and Count Romer -- Odd is death; even is life -- Escort to Shanghai -- The secret of Kaunas -- Mauthausen -- A secret burial -- Mister Frits -- Hey! Blow! Scream! Bang! -- From Avenue Joffre to the ghetto -- So many names on a wall -- Everything's fine in Psychiko -- The reprimand -- The need to know -- Under a spruce or pine tree -- No news from the survivors -- The exodus from Egypt -- Whoever saves one life saves a whole world -- The Holland 977 case -- A wedding in Antwerp -- Pebbles on a grave.
Text in English, translated from the Dutch.
