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ANGELS OF AMSTERDAM
Rescuers smuggled hundreds of children out of a Jewish daycare in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. They brought them to foster families in the Dutch countryside, where they hid until the end of the war. This is their story.
The book draws on extensive interviews with survivors and other archival materials to tell an incredible story of wartime resistancefor the first time.
Anne Frank's chronicle of Nazi occupation of Amsterdam is the most recognizable. Two miles from her hiding place, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish daycare director, plotted a far-reaching rescue. She recruited young women from her daycare. She hid and smuggled hundreds of children out of Amsterdam - right under the noses of their Nazi captors.
Pimentel's and her associates' method was the opposite of Schindler's list: instead of adding names to be rescued to a list, they omited the names of Jewish children who arrived at Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater that served as a collection point for Jews. The children were smuggled out. Toddlers were sent on walks with their daycare caregivers; five would leave, and five would return with one child replaced during the walk. Handed over hedges and carried in carts, they were sent to live out the rest of the war in the Dutch countryside with caregivers in the Resistance. Many would never see their parents again.
The scale of these rescues -some 600 children- makes this story one of the most astonishing acts of courage and resistance recorded. While some rescuers lived beyond the war, Henriëtte Pimentel was deported and died in Auschwitz.
Esther Shaya is Dutch and lives in The Netherlands. She is the author of two prior books, published in Dutch. Shaya learned, while researching this book, that her grandparents took in a five-year-old boy from this very daycare.
Susan B. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling author of children's books. Through her work as a Strategic Partner Manager with Facebook and Instagram, she has advised authors and influencers on social media strategy. Angels of Amsterdam is her first work of narrative non-fiction for adults. Katz lives in California (and is American).
Anne Frank's chronicle of Nazi occupation of Amsterdam is the most recognizable. Two miles from her hiding place, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish daycare director, plotted a far-reaching rescue. She recruited young women from her daycare. She hid and smuggled hundreds of children out of Amsterdam - right under the noses of their Nazi captors.
Pimentel's and her associates' method was the opposite of Schindler's list: instead of adding names to be rescued to a list, they omited the names of Jewish children who arrived at Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater that served as a collection point for Jews. The children were smuggled out. Toddlers were sent on walks with their daycare caregivers; five would leave, and five would return with one child replaced during the walk. Handed over hedges and carried in carts, they were sent to live out the rest of the war in the Dutch countryside with caregivers in the Resistance. Many would never see their parents again.
The scale of these rescues -some 600 children- makes this story one of the most astonishing acts of courage and resistance recorded. While some rescuers lived beyond the war, Henriëtte Pimentel was deported and died in Auschwitz.
Esther Shaya is Dutch and lives in The Netherlands. She is the author of two prior books, published in Dutch. Shaya learned, while researching this book, that her grandparents took in a five-year-old boy from this very daycare.
Susan B. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling author of children's books. Through her work as a Strategic Partner Manager with Facebook and Instagram, she has advised authors and influencers on social media strategy. Angels of Amsterdam is her first work of narrative non-fiction for adults. Katz lives in California (and is American).
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