Library: Netherlands & Germany

ID Code Title Author Description Home(s)
13933 NETH/GER1 Childhood Jona Oberski, translated by Ralph Menheim, Pushkin Press, first published in 1978 A recreation of the Holocaust through the eyes of a Jewish child as he and his family are deported from the Netherlands and interned at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany. The writer is eventually placed in foster care at the end of the war.
13934 NETH/GER2 The Children’s House of Belsen Hetty E Verolme, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000 During the Holocaust Hetty and her brothers were sent to Children’s House within Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany from the Netherlands. A truly remarkable story of a young girl’s determination.