The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced annihilation in the Holocaust — until an ordinary Dutch man became their saviour. Over a period of ten feverish days, Jan Zwartendijk, the newly appointed Dutch consul, wrote thousands of visas that would ostensibly allow Jews to travel to the Dutch colony of Curaçao on the other side of the world. With the help of Chiune Sugihara, the...
The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the t...
In the first year of the new millennium, a book came into my hands from which I learned that for twenty years I had lived in the house of a former SS man. The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine. 'A powerful and humane reminder that the horrors of the past century are inexhaustibly fascinating and reverberate today.' Observer In 1979, Stefan Hertmans fell in love with a beautiful dilapidated old house in Ghent in Belgium, which he lovingly rescued from decay, as it became his peaceful sanctuary. Now, all these years later, he learns that...
In the first year of the new millennium, a book came into my hands from which I learned that for twenty years I had lived in the house of a former SS ...
