Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search

[ 2 filters applied ]

Search Results filters

Filtered by:

The just : how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust Cover Image Book Book

The just : how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

Brokken, Jan (author.). McKay, David, 1973- (translator.).

Summary: "In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul. In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk, with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia -- chose to break his country's diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom through the ruse of issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curacao on the other side of the world... Most of the Jews whom Zwartendijk helped escape survived the war, and they and their descendants settled in America, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Zwartendijk and Sugihara were true heroes, and yet they were both shunned by their own countries after the war, and their courageous, unstinting actions have remained relatively unknown."--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781950354566
  • ISBN: 1950354563
  • Physical Description: print
    vi, 478 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: US edition.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Scribe Publications, 2021.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Originally published in Dutch as De rechtvaardigen. Amsterdam : Atlas Contact, 2018.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Language Note:
Translated from the Dutch.

Find similar items by subject

Subject: Zwartendijk, Jan 1896-1976
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Netherlands
World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Lithuania
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Lithuania
Netherlands
Genre: Biographies.
Biographies.

Currently available copies

  • 2 out of 2 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds on 2 total copies.
Sort by distance from:
Show Only Available Copies
Library System: Library Branch Name
Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status  
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Peachtree City Library 		940.531 BROKKEN ( Send Text)
 31022010614904 ADULT Available

Additional Resources