The Rescue of Belsen's Diamond Children

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-97709-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: The Holocaust and its Contexts

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siertsema, Bettine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Bettine Siertsema is Assistant Professor of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.