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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 28 halftones, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- 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