Leo V. was born on July 7, 1940 in Amsterdam. He describes his first memories of his father telling the family they had to leave their home and being taken to the hospital on the basis that he was suffering a contagious disease. He explains that he was kept in an isolation ward. He discusses his aunt’s memories of these events and how they are different from his. He describes being taken to a foster ...

Andre B. was born in Amsterdam on September 27, 1937. He describes his family and recalls them moving to Naarden in 1940. He describes how his father brought him and his sister to stay with a family in a small city and never seeing his parents again. He recalls staying with this family for six weeks and then with another family for two and a half years. He describes hiding for long periods and not ...

Stanley W. was born in Calgary, Canada on August 15, 1923. He describes the Jewish community and experiencing antisemitism in school. He discusses becoming aware of politics in Europe and the experiences of the Jewish people there. He describes his family. He recalls joining the Canadian army in 1941 and discusses his mobilization to Toronto where he was a private then a leading aircraftsman in the ...

George T. was born in 1912 in Zsolna, Hungary, which became part of Czechoslovakia after the First World War. He describes his family and early childhood. His family moved to Miskolc, Hungary after his mother had a stroke and died shortly after. He recalls his father remarrying a woman much more religious. He describes increasing antisemitism. He describes attending medical school in Debrecen and facing ...

"This film depicts the story of central-European Jewry during the Holocaust era, as experienced by two sisters: Franny Rozelaar and Betty Meir ( née Ichenh ä user), born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, and with the growing anti-Jewish measures in Nazi Germany, Fanny, born in 1919, was ejected from her school. The family left Germany, settling in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ...

Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval that tore apart her world.

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic — a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts ...

"Beginning in 1940, 110,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands to concentration camps. Of those, fewer than 6,000 returned. Ashes in the Wind is a story of murder, on a scale never known before, with organised malice and forethought. Jacob Presser documents the destruction of Dutch Jewry, from isolation to deportation and, ultimately, to extermination... Using 15 years of research Jacob Presser ...

Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibor is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there. "Sent in June 1943 to Sobibor, where his wife and family were murdered, Jules Schelvis has written the first book-length, fully documented account of the camp. He details the creation of the killing centre, its personnel, the use of railways, ...

" The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews is a readable text for undergraduate students... The author provides a broad set of perspectives, while emphasizing the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from an international Jewish question. This text conveys a sense of the Holocaust's many moving parts. It is arranged chronologically and geographically to reflect how persecution, experience, and ...

The presentation of Europe's historical past has changed - it was possible to conceal the fact that the majority of people actively co-operated or accommodated Nazi rule. This collection unravells the moral and political choices facing European governments in the aftermath of World War II.

"Etty Hillesum's diary, An Interrupted Life (published forty years after her death), gave back to the world an extraordinary figure—the adult counterpart to Anne Frank—a startingly modern young woman who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation... Now Etty Hillesum's letters complete the portrait of this astonishing personality, as they reveal the final year of her life in the transit camp Westerbork, ...

During the Second World War, SS Hauptsturmführer Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie earned a reputation for sadistic cruelty unmatched by all but a handful of his contemporaries in Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo. In 1942, he was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie was entrusted with “cleansing” the region of Jews, French Resistance fighters, and ...

"Each year more than half a million people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. This book takes a brief historical look at the actual unpretentious canalside house where, during the Second World War, Anne Frank wrote the diary that has now become world famous. Central to the book is the period when Anne, with her family and four others, hid from the German occupiers in the ...

"This booklet is published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the rescue of 222 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Nazi Germany and then exchanged for German Templers living in Palestine." —Title page verso

" Things We Couldn't Say is the... true story of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman, who, with her fianc é , Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue imperiled Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II. Throughout the years that Diet and Hein aided the Resistance—work that would cost Diet her freedom and Hein his life—their courageous effort ultimately saved hundreds of Dutch Jews." —Back cov ...