Ambiguity of Virtue - Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

Recounts the life of Gertrude van Tijn, a woman who between 1933 and 1940 negotiated for the emigration of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe.

About the author

Bernard Wasserstein is Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Chicago.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wasserstein, Bernard Wasserstein
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2014
• EAN: 9780674281387
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28138-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; History, Europe, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust