A long labour : a Dutch mother's Holocaust memoir
Memoirs of a Jew, born as Henriette Dwinger (1918-2006) in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands; chs. 3-6 (pp. 53-127) relate her experiences in the Holocaust. Shandler was in Amsterdam when the country was occupied by the Germans in May 1940. She gave birth to a daughter that year, shortly before her German Jewish boyfriend was deported and killed. In 1942 she married Ernst Bollegraaf; her parents, as well ...