The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

by Bernard Wasserstein

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In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle-aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers? In such impossible circumstances, what is just action, and what is complicity?

A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face...

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  • ISBN10 0674281381
  • ISBN13 9780674281387
  • Publish Date 31 March 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English