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1 online resource (496 pages) |
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Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's note -- Epigraph -- 1 Mister Radio Philips -- 2 One last breath of peace -- 3 Losing your company -- 4 Scales and cacti -- 5 Erni Christianus -- 6 Between Prague and Rotterdam -- 7 Aletrino -- 8 Stalin in the shop windows -- 9 Peppy Sternheim Lewin -- 10 Nathan Gutwirth -- 11 Not a chance in hell. But who knows? -- 12 The manual for consular officials -- 13 The white ship with the black hull -- 14 The independent-minded Sugihara -- 15 The yard of the Lietūkis garage -- 16 Comrade Nina |
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17 The fiat: the party leader and the influential dwarf -- 18 Pan Tadeusz -- 19 Chanson russe -- 20 Please forgive me. I cannot write any more. -- 21 Every man for himself -- 22 The Swedish route -- 23 An overlooked date -- 24 Towards the ends of the east -- 25 No way forward, no way back -- 26 The house with the green shutters in Kobe -- 27 Zorach Warhaftig -- 28 Zofia and Count Romer -- 29 Odd is death -- even is life -- 30 Escort to Shanghai -- 31 The secret of Kaunas -- 32 Mauthausen -- 33 A secret burial -- 34 Mister Frits -- 35 Hey! Blow! Scream! Bang! -- 36 From Avenue Joffre to the ghetto |
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37 So many names on a wall -- 38 Everything's fine in Psychiko -- 39 The reprimand -- 40 The need to know -- 41 Under a spruce or pine tree -- 42 No news from the survivors -- 43 The exodus from Egypt -- 44 Whoever saves one life saves a whole world -- 45 The Holland 977 Case -- 46 A wedding in Antwerp -- 47 Pebbles on a grave -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Illustration credits |
| Summary |
The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul. In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk, with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia -- chose to break his country's diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom through the ruse of issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curaçao on the other side of the world. Thanks to these visas, and Sugihara's approval of onward passage, many Jews -- up to 10,000 -- were able to travel on the Trans-Siberian Express all through Soviet Russia to Vladivostok, further to Japan, and onwards to China. Most of the Jews whom Zwartendijk helped escape survived the war, and they and their descendants settled in America, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Zwartendijk and Sugihara were true heroes, and yet they were both shunned by their own countries after the war, and their courageous, unstinting actions have remained relatively unknown. In The Just, renowned Dutch author Jan Brokken wrests this heroic story from oblivion and traces the journeys of a number of the rescued Jews. This epic narrative shows how, even in life-threatening circumstances, some people make the right choice at the right time. It is a lesson in character and courage |
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Australian |
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General |
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Translated from the Dutch |
| Subject |
Zwartendijk, Jan, 1896-1976.
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Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986 fast |
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Netherlands -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Lithuania
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Jewish studies.
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Biography & Autobiography - Historical.
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History - Modern - 20th Century.
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History - Holocaust.
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History - Europe - General.
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History - Jewish.
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History / Social History.
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Social Science / Refugees.
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Political Science / Genocide & War Crimes.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
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True stories of heroism, endurance & survival.
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General & world history.
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The Holocaust.
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European history.
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Social & cultural history.
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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Refugees & political asylum.
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Genocide & ethnic cleansing.
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Lithuania
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McKay, David, translator
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Scribe
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| ISBN |
1925938727 |
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9781925938722 |
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