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    Items with the tag:

    netherlands

    Essay

    A Diary Archive in Ams­ter­dam Offers a Trove of Untold Stories

    Nina Sie­gal
    February 20, 2023
    Essay

    The Gasp and the Ques­tions: The Inspi­ra­tion for ​‘Code Name Sapphire’

    Pam Jenoff
    February 6, 2023
    Essay

    The High Nest: A Sto­ry of Jew­ish Resistance

    Rox­ane van Iperen
    August 30, 2021
    Essay

    ‘Invis­i­ble Years’: Piec­ing Togeth­er My Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Survival

    Daphne Geis­mar
    August 2, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Behind the Book­case: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hid­ing Place
    Barbara Lowell, Valentina Toro (illus.)
    Cover of The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
    Non­fic­tion
    The Sis­ters of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of Two Jew­ish Sis­ters’ Resis­tance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
    Rox­ane van Iperen
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    Fic­tion
    The Tree and the Vine
    Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman (trans.)
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    Search­ing for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hid­den Child

    Joe Gosler
    May 27, 2020
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    Dutch Girl: Audrey Hep­burn and World War II
    Robert Matzen (auth.), Luca Doti (foreward)
    Cover of Invisible Years: A Family's Collected Account of Separation and Survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands
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    Invis­i­ble Years: A Fam­i­ly’s Col­lect­ed Account of Sep­a­ra­tion and Sur­vival dur­ing the Holo­caust in the Netherlands
    Daphne Geis­mar
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    Chil­dren’s
    When We Were Shadows 
    Janet Wees
    Cover of Two Prayers Before Bedtime: Love and Loss in Wartorn Amsterdam
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    Two Prayers Before Bed­time: Love and Loss in Wartorn Amsterdam
    Nadine Wojakovs­ki
    Cover of The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
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    The Ambi­gu­i­ty of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
    Bernard Wasserstein
    Cover of The Dynamics of Becoming Orthodox: Dutch Jewish Women Returning to Judaism and How Their Mothers Felt about It
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    The Dynam­ics of Becom­ing Ortho­dox: Dutch Jew­ish Women Return­ing to Judaism and How Their Moth­ers Felt about It
    Minny E. Mock-Degen
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    Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
    Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
    Cover of The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
    Non­fic­tion
    The Occu­pied Gar­den: Recov­er­ing the Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly in the War-Torn Netherlands
    Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski
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