Sterrekinderen

A fictionalized account of the experiences of Dutch children during the Holocaust in the Netherlands and in Bergen-Belsen. The first two parts of the book (pp. 1-104) were written during 1941-43 in the ghetto of Amsterdam, where Asscher-Pinkhof (b. 1896) taught in special schools for Jews and volunteered to help in the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a theater converted into a detention center for Jews. The manuscript was entrusted to the publisher in 1943, before the expected deportation, with a promise to finish it if she would survive. Asscher-Pinkhof was deported to Westerbork, where she continued her work with children. In July In July 1944, while interned in Bergen-Belsen, she was included in a group released in exchange for Germans from Palestine. She resumed her writing in Palestine in 1944, and dispatched the last chapters in 1945, as promised. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)