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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, ‘nurse Luba’. 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.

Table of 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.

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children

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      Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
      Published 12 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9783030977061
      978-3030977061
      ISBN-10 3030977064
      Also in:
      European history Oral history Military History Second World War

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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, ‘nurse Luba’. 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.

      Table of 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.

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