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Ashes
in the Wind
The Destruction of Dutch Jewry
Jacob Presser
Translated by Arnold Pomerans |
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Beginning
in 1940, 110,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands to concentration
camps. Of those, fewer than 6,000 returned.
Ashes in the Wind is a story of murder —
on a scale never known before, with malice aforethought and in cold blood.
Historian Jacob Presser documents the destruction of Dutch Jewry, from isolation
to deportation and , ultimately, to extermination. He graphically recounts
stories of persecution, life in the transit camps, and the process of going
into hiding. In this detailed narrative, the author conveys the utter despair
felt by people whose whole world had crumbled.
An unsentimental epilogue considers the aftermath — the "post-war
Jewish attitude to life," providing a moment's relief from the incredible
horror of the "final solution." |
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"A
scholarly, painfully compelling account of the whole operation which leaves
no detail untold." — Punch
"Dr. Presser has rendered a great service
to the record of humanity . . . A monument to the memory of [the] Jewish
citizens of Holland who were massacred."
— Times Literary Supplement |
