Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:She Writes PressISBN-13:9781631526367ISBN-10:1631526367UPC:9781631526367Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Historical, JewishSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVWHNNWK5
Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine
During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to adjudicate "doubtful cases." Calmeyer used his assignment to save at least 3,700 Jews from deportation and death, dwarfing the number saved by Schindler's famous rescue operation. Laureen Nussbaum--n?e...
Language:EnglishPublisher:She Writes PressISBN-13:9781631526367ISBN-10:1631526367UPC:9781631526367Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Historical, JewishSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVWHNNWK5
Nussbaum, Laureen: - Born in 1927 in Frankfurt, Laureen Nussbaum was the middle daughter of the Klein family. When she was eight, the Kleins left Hitler's Germany and settled in Amsterdam, close to Anne Frank and her family, old friends from Frankfurt. When Hans Calmeyer, the German official in charge of "dubious cases," decided in favor of their petition to be considered non-Jews, and Nussbaum's...
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