1st Edition
Machseh Lajesoumim A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890-1943
By Jaap Focke
Copyright 2021
378 Pages
by
Routledge
378 Pages
by
Routledge
The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate building in Leiden's city centre, the inauguration in 1929 of a brand-new building, shown on the front cover, was the start of a remarkably productive and prosperous period.,The building still... Read more
Foreword, Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Jewish orphanages in Dutch society, 2 1890 to 1929: A long and difficult period, 3 1929: A magnificent new home, 4 1929 to 1933: Happy years, 5 1933 to 1939: Clouds over Europe, 6 1940 to 1942: Occupation, oppression, persecution, 7 1943 to 1944: Liquidation, 8 So many more, 9 1943 to 1946: Survivors, 10 After the war, Epilogue, List of abbreviations and acronyms, Dutch or German words used in the text, List of 168 children and 9 staff who lived in the orphanage (1929-1943), Bibliography, Persons index, Subjects index
Biography
J.W. Focke was educated as a geologist and received a PhD from the University of Leiden in 1978, and a M.Educ. from Utrecht in 2006.
