The Ambiguity of Virtue

Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

Bernard Wasserstein

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674281387

Publication Date: 03/31/2014

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352 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

28 halftones, 2 maps

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Frontispiece: Gertrude van Tijn, 1936
Map: The Netherlands, 1940
Prologue
1. “Ruined Woman”
2. Rebuilding Lives
3. “Death Ships”
4. Gertrude’s War
5. Mission to Lisbon
6. Crisis of Conscience
7. Help for the Departing
8. Trading with the Enemy
9. To the Bitter End
10. Last Exit from Amsterdam
11. Aftermath
12. A Reckoning
Epilogue
Sources
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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