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Site of Deportation, Site of Memory: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust book cover

1st Edition

Site of Deportation, Site of Memory The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust

Edited By Frank van Vree, Hetty Berg, David Duindam Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps. Before the war, the theatre had been an example of Jewish integration in the Netherlands, and after the war it became a memorial for the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. This book is... Read more
Introduction Frank van Vree, Timeline, Chapter 1. In and around the theatre. Jewish life in Amsterdam in the pre-war era. Frank van Vree, Hetty Berg and Joost Groeneboer Chapter 2. In the Shadow of Nazism. Theatre and Culture on the Eve of Deportation. Esther Göbel Chapter 3 Site of Terror. Persecution and Deportation Annemiek Gringold Chapter 4 Site of Memory, Site of Mourning David Duindam, Epilogue.

Biography

Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.|Hetty Berg is chief curator and manager of museum affairs of the Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam.
David Duindam is researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.|Rob de Wijk is the Director of the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Professor of International Relations and Security at the Campus the Hague of Leiden University. He was previously a Professor in the field of International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy and Head of the Defense Concepts Department at the Dutch Ministry of Defense.

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