Angels of Amsterdam

How a band of brave women outsmarted the Nazis to save 600 Jewish children

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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'A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism' MITCH ALBOM, New York Times Bestselling Author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Little LiarJust two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most daring and far-reaching rescues of the war. Recruiting young women from her nursery and working in tandem with other Resistance members, Henriëtte successfully hid and smuggled six hundred children out of Amsterdam - right under the noses of their Nazi captors.Angels of Amsterdam draws on recent interviews with the survivors and former teenage resistance workers. Over the past four years, authors Esther Shaya and Susan B. Katz travelled extensively to gather first-hand accounts from these heroes and the children they rescued, now in their 80s and 90s. Coupled with archival images, this remarkable, real-life World War II narrative is a story for the ages.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2027-01-14
Mått156 x 240 x 22 mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN9780349020808

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Esther Shaya is the author of two prior books, both published exclusively in Dutch - Harry & Sieny: Surviving in Resistance and Love and Just Wait: The Heroic Life of Henriette Pimentel. Shaya has been a board member, editor, and author of the "Jewish Houses Foundation" since 2015. This foundation publishes a book per year with pre-war stories about the Jewish community in the Netherlands. Shaya has been interviewed on national radio and TV and has been a guest speaker about the crèche numerous times in the Netherlands, U.S., and Australia. As she conducted the interviews, Esther learned that her grandparents had sheltered children from the nursery.As the granddaughter of Eastern-European, Jewish immigrants - some of whom came through the Netherlands - Susan B. Katz is deeply dedicated to keeping Holocaust stories alive. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling author of dozens of children's books; her body of work includes biographies of The Story of Jane Goodall, The Story of Albert Einstein and The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (all bestsellers), among others. Susan also launched and ran Facebook and Instagram's author verticals. Angels of Amsterdam is her first work of narrative non-fiction for adults.