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Journey to the Horizon
Escape and Evasion during World War II
2021 || Paperback || Hans Onderwater e.a. || Nedvision Publishing || met inkijkexemplaar
Journey to the Horizon is a tribute to aircrew who were force down and evaded capture. It also honours those Who died and those who endured a long time as a PoW.
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The Jewish guards
Supervision in the Dutch Gateway to Hell
2023 || Paperback || Frank van Riet || Nedvision Publishing
When the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands began in 1942, the occupying forces used the refugee camp near Westerbork in the east as a transit camp, without modifications. The Westerbork camp was established and paid for by the Dutch-Jewish community in the 1930s to house the increasing number of Jewish refugees from Germany.
In two years, more than 100,000 Jews were deported from this camp, also known as the “Dutch gateway to hell”.
Because a well-functioning camp organization was al...
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American St. Nick
A TRUE story of how American soldiers brought Christmas back to a small war-torn town in World War 2.
2021 || Paperback || Peter Lion || Nedvision Publishing
It’s December 1944, and knowing they wouldn’t be home for Christmas, a handful of battle weary GIs decide to throw a holiday party for the children of Wiltz, Luxembourg.
Ten Days later the town is all but destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge, and in the years that followed, Wiltz never forgot the kindness and generosity of those soldiers that one St. Nicolas Day.
For thirty years the people of Wiltz searched for those soldiers, and especially the American St. Nicolas, in hopes of brin...