Motherland : growing up with the holocaust

Goldberg, Rita, 1949-2014

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The author writes: 'I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically. This book tells the story of her dramatic life before, during and after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.' Hilde Jacobsthal was born in Berlin and arrived in the Netherlands as a young child. She was fifteen when the Nazis invaded, and when Jewish students were forbidden to attend Dutch schools, she trained and worked as a day care nurse. Thus began her long association with the Underground, helping to save Jewish children when they came to the deportation point. She fled to Belgium after the deportation of her parents in 1943, and spent a year in hiding under a false identity, while continuing her work in the Resistance.