Bibliograph

The ambiguity of virtue, Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews, Bernard Wasserstein

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The ambiguity of virtue, Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews, Bernard Wasserstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ambiguity of virtue

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Bernard Wasserstein

Sub title

Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews

Summary

Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine, others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- "Ruined woman" -- Rebuilding lives -- "Death ships" -- Gertrude's war -- Mission to Lisbon -- Crisis of conscience -- Help for the departing -- Trading with the enemy -- To the bitter end -- Last exit from Amsterdam -- Aftermath -- A reckoning -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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