An intensely personal account of life in a Nazi camp in Holland from which trains carried Dutch Jews to their death in the extermination camps of Eastern Europe. These eloquent letters were written by a thirty-three-year-old housewife and mother of three young children, ages three, five, and eight. Her husband, also in hiding, urges her again and again to escape by means of his contacts with the underground. Hilde faces the terrible dilemma of staying or escaping at the price of certain reprisal to her parents, in-laws and ...
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An intensely personal account of life in a Nazi camp in Holland from which trains carried Dutch Jews to their death in the extermination camps of Eastern Europe. These eloquent letters were written by a thirty-three-year-old housewife and mother of three young children, ages three, five, and eight. Her husband, also in hiding, urges her again and again to escape by means of his contacts with the underground. Hilde faces the terrible dilemma of staying or escaping at the price of certain reprisal to her parents, in-laws and brother. Hilde's letters reflect her initial denial of the reality of what was happening to a final understanding of her fate. "The story of the Holocaust is the of millions of Jews life the author of these letters, ordinary people who are seldom heard from... To read Signs of Life is to experience the Holocaust at ground level".
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B/W Illus. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) 8vo. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; presentation plate and title page signature; Foreword by Jacob Boas. SIGNS OF LIFE is an eloquent series of letters written by Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Transit Camp Westerbork. This was the Nazi camp in Holland from which ninety-three trains carried over one hundred thousand Dutch Jews to their death in the extermination camps of Eastern Europe. The book provides an intensely personal account of camp life in Westerbork, from the perspective of a thirty-three-year-old housewife and mother of three young children. Mrs. Verdoner-Sluizer was deported from Westerbork on February 8, 1944. She died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz three days later. Her husband and three children survived the war in hiding.
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