The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews
Wasserstein, Bernard2014
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In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle-aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers? Is such impossible circumstances, what is just action, and what is complicity?
Main title:
The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews / Bernard Wasserstein.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Collation:
310 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Dutch.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780674281387 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.531809
Language:
EnglishDutch
Subject:
Tijn, Gertrude van, 1891-1974World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- NetherlandsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- NetherlandsJews -- Persecutions -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Netherlands -- AmsterdamJews, German -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- BiographyJewish women -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- BiographyWomen social workers -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- BiographyJoodsche Raad voor Amsterdam -- HistoryBiography
BRN:
1781301