The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews /
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 terrib...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Notas: | "An earlier version of this book was published in Dutch as Gertrude van Tijn en het lot van de Nederlandse Joden by Nieuw Amsterdam, ©2013"--Title page verso |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674419735 0674419731 |