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‘Invis­i­ble Years’: Piec­ing Togeth­er My Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Survival

Daphne Geis­mar
August 2, 2021
Cover of Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place
Chil­dren’s
Behind the Book­case: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hid­ing Place
Barbara Lowell, Valentina Toro (illus.)
Cover of The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
Non­fic­tion
The Sis­ters of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of Two Jew­ish Sis­ters’ Resis­tance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
Rox­ane van Iperen
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Fic­tion
The Tree and the Vine
Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman (trans.)
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Search­ing for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hid­den Child

Joe Gosler
May 27, 2020
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hep­burn and World War II
Robert Matzen (auth.), Luca Doti (foreward)
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Invis­i­ble Years: A Fam­i­ly’s Col­lect­ed Account of Sep­a­ra­tion and Sur­vival dur­ing the Holo­caust in the Netherlands
Daphne Geis­mar
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Chil­dren’s
When We Were Shadows 
Janet Wees
Cover of Two Prayers Before Bedtime: Love and Loss in Wartorn Amsterdam
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Two Prayers Before Bed­time: Love and Loss in Wartorn Amsterdam
Nadine Wojakovs­ki
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The Ambi­gu­i­ty of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
Bernard Wasserstein
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The Dynam­ics of Becom­ing Ortho­dox: Dutch Jew­ish Women Return­ing to Judaism and How Their Moth­ers Felt about It
Minny E. Mock-Degen
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Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
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Non­fic­tion
The Occu­pied Gar­den: Recov­er­ing the Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly in the War-Torn Netherlands
Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski
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Beyond Anne Frank: Hid­den Chil­dren and Post­war Fam­i­lies in Holland
Diane L. Wolf
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Ash­es in the Wind: The Destruc­tion of Dutch Jewry
Dr. Jacob Presser
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