Translation from Dutch of In verband met de vermindering van het aantal kinderen-- Includes register of names of students of the 1st Montessori School, Amsterdam, who died in the Holocaust (p. 149-154) Includes bibliographical references (page 164)
Contents:
Poem: The children Holland or the Netherlands the Nazi storm Herding the Jews Poem: Razzia in Amsterdam Timeline of restrictions Sifting the children, shuffling the schools My father, Jan van Dam The 1st Montessori School connection The exodus begins The suicide pact: The Pinkhof family Saved by my dog / David van Huiden From Nazi darling to starving prisoner / Inge Preuss Even my baby sister / Bram Asscher Stuffed in a cattle car / Esther Santcross From the mouth of hell / Jet Edersheim A bullet through my knee / Anny Morpurgo Begging for food / Cora Landzaat Sent off to strangers / Roos Groenman Shuffled around the Netherlands / Sal Groenman My parents imprisoned / Floris Haak Saving Jewish children / Elly de Zwart Bad boy / Fred Huijser Nazi youth member / Jan Ponne A German hiding Jews / Karin de Jongh From Communists to resistance workers / Rudi Leikies Picking pockets of the dead / Hannie J. Ostendorf Voyles Poem: This Was the Day Hiding Jewish children / Jeanne Lindeman Driven to the attic : the principal / Wim F. Eijgenstein Traversing the Netherlands / Sini Broerse RAF pilot / Daniel Sajet Resistance fighters / Sape and Bram Kuiper Killed after the war ended / Willem Zeeman the search into out past Rollbook of the dead