The Ambiguity of Virtue : : Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews / / Bernard Wasserstein.
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, burdene...
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Wasserstein, Bernard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ambiguity of Virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews / Bernard Wasserstein. Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (352 p.) : 28 halftones, 2 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. “Ruined Woman” -- 2. Rebuilding Lives -- 3. “Death Ships” -- 4. Gertrude’s War -- 5. Mission to Lisbon -- 6. Crisis of Conscience -- 7. Help for the Departing -- 8. Trading with the Enemy -- 9. To the Bitter End -- 10. Last Exit from Amsterdam -- 11. Aftermath -- 12. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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? In such impossible circumstances, what is just action, and what is complicity? A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face of extraordinary moral challenges, The Ambiguity of Virtue tells the story of Van Tijn's work on behalf of her fellow Jews as the avenues that might save them were closed off. Between 1933 and 1940 Van Tijn helped organize Jewish emigration from Germany. After the Germans occupied Holland, she worked for the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam and enabled many Jews to escape. Some later called her a heroine for the choices she made; others denounced her as a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into the twilight world of wartime Europe, to expose the wrenching dilemmas that confronted Jews under Nazi occupation. Gertrude van Tijn's experience raises crucial questions about German policy toward the Jews, about the role of the Jewish Council, and about Dutch, American, and British responses to the persecution and mass murder of Jews on an unimaginable scale. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Netherlands. Jewish women Biography Netherlands Amsterdam. Jewish women Netherlands Amsterdam Biography. Jews Persecutions History 20th century Netherlands. Jews Persecutions Netherlands History 20th century. Jews, German Biography Netherlands Amsterdam. Jews, German Netherlands Amsterdam Biography. Women social workers Biography Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam (stad). Women social workers Netherlands Amsterdam Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Netherlands Amsterdam. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Netherlands. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674419735 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674419735 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674419735/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. “Ruined Woman” -- 2. Rebuilding Lives -- 3. “Death Ships” -- 4. Gertrude’s War -- 5. Mission to Lisbon -- 6. Crisis of Conscience -- 7. Help for the Departing -- 8. Trading with the Enemy -- 9. To the Bitter End -- 10. Last Exit from Amsterdam -- 11. Aftermath -- 12. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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