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Author Siertsema, Bettine, author.

Title The rescue of Belsen's diamond children / Bettine Siertsema
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Series Holocaust and its contexts, 2731-572X
Holocaust and its contexts. 2731-572X
Contents 1. Background and Overview of the History -- 2. Amsterdam, 1940-1943 -- 3. Westerbork and Vught -- 4. Bergen Belsen -- 5. Sachsenhausen -- 6. Beendorf -- 7. The Children and Nurse Luba -- 8. Liberation -- 9. Picking up Life after the War -- 10. Reunion -- 11. The Complexities of Memory
Summary This book uncovers the history of a group of Jewish workers and merchants in the Amsterdam diamond industry during the Holocaust. They and their families were exempt from deportation for a long time, but were eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen. In the end, almost all of the men perished, and the women barely survived slave-labour. Their children were left to die in the camp, but were miraculously saved by the intervention of a Jewish Polish woman, ⁰́₈nurse Luba⁰́₉. The main sources on which this book is based are video testimonies of the surviving members of this group, personal interviews, minutes of interviews taken down in shorthand shortly after the war, and personal documents such as letters, archival documents, and autobiographical books
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 17, 2022)
Subject Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) fast
Subject Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Netherlands
Diamond industry and trade -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
Diamond industry and trade
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Netherlands
Netherlands -- Amsterdam
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030977078
3030977072