Sterrekinderen
Description:... A fictionalized account of the experiences of Dutch children during the Holocaust in the Netherlands and in Bergen-Belsen. The first two parts of the book (p. 1-104) were written during 1941-43 in the ghetto of Amsterdam, where Asscher-Pinkhof (b. 1896) taught in special schools for Jews and volunteered to help in the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a theater converted into a detention center for Jews. The manuscript was entrusted to the publisher in 1943, before the expected deportation, with a promise to finish it if she would survive. Asscher-Pinkhof was deported to Westerbork, where she continued her work with children. In July In July 1944, while interned in Bergen-Belsen, she was included in a group released in exchange for Germans from Palestine. She resumed her writing in Palestine in 1944, and dispatched the last chapters in 1945, as promised.
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