- 2004/245 pages
- Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers
Includes photos
Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
Hardcover: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-8419-1425-4
National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist standards; more than half of them, about 80,000, lived in Amsterdam. Remembering Jewish Amsterdam is a celebration of their lives. The book consists of selections from seventy-seven interviews with Holocaust survivors as they reminisced about those earlier days. The editors have used this rich material to compose a collective mosaic of memories that provides a fascinating view of Jewish life in Amsterdam during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist standards; more than half of them, about 80,000, lived in Amsterdam. Remembering Jewish Amsterdam is a celebration of their lives. The book consists of selections from seventy-seven interviews with Holocaust survivors as they reminisced about those earlier days. The editors have used this rich material to compose a collective mosaic of memories that provides a fascinating view of Jewish life in Amsterdam during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
