The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children 1st Edition

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030977061,3030977064,9783030977078, 3030977072

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030977072
• ISBN-13: 9783030977078
• Author: Bettine Siertsema

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 contents:

1. A Brief Overview of the History
2. Sources
3. Amsterdam, 1940–1943: ‘A Rather False Sense of Security’
4. Westerbork and Vught: ‘It Was a Nice Camp, but Despair Played a Big Role Too’
5. Bergen-Belsen: ‘Everything Fell by the Wayside’
6. Sachsenhausen: ‘You’re Reduced to Nothing. You’re Worth Less Than a Dog’
7. Beendorf: ‘It Is a Miracle That I Survived’
8. The Children and Nurse Luba: ‘Just Bring All Those Little Children to Me’
9. Liberation: ‘I Can Still See the Horror on the Faces of the English’
10. Post-War Lives: ‘Crying Doesn’t Help’
11. The 1995 Reunion: ‘A Time to Heal’
12. Testimony: A Valuable Yet Tricky Source

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