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The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews Cover Image Book Book

The ambiguity of virtue : Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Dutch Jews / Bernard Wasserstein.

Wasserstein, Bernard, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780674281387 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  • ISBN: 0674281381 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  • Physical Description: 334 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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General Note:
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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