‘A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism’ MITCH ALBOM, New York Times Bestselling Author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Little Liar
Just two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most daring and far-reaching rescues of the war. Recruiting young women from her nursery and working in tandem with other Resistance members, Henriëtte successfully hid and smuggled six hundred children out of Amsterdam – right under the noses of their Nazi captors.
Angels of Amsterdam draws on recent interviews with the survivors and former teenage resistance workers. Over the past four years, authors Esther Shaya and Susan B. Katz travelled extensively to gather first-hand accounts from these heroes and the children they rescued, now in their 80s and 90s. Coupled with archival images, this remarkable, real-life World War II narrative is a story for the ages.
‘Brilliantly captures the untold story of unheralded Dutch heroes and heroines in the resistance’ Nancy Spielberg, Filmmaker/Writer/Producer at Playmount Productions
Just two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most daring and far-reaching rescues of the war. Recruiting young women from her nursery and working in tandem with other Resistance members, Henriëtte successfully hid and smuggled six hundred children out of Amsterdam – right under the noses of their Nazi captors.
Angels of Amsterdam draws on recent interviews with the survivors and former teenage resistance workers. Over the past four years, authors Esther Shaya and Susan B. Katz travelled extensively to gather first-hand accounts from these heroes and the children they rescued, now in their 80s and 90s. Coupled with archival images, this remarkable, real-life World War II narrative is a story for the ages.
‘Brilliantly captures the untold story of unheralded Dutch heroes and heroines in the resistance’ Nancy Spielberg, Filmmaker/Writer/Producer at Playmount Productions
Reviews
Angels of Amsterdam brilliantly captures the untold story of unheralded Dutch heroes and heroines in the resistance who risked their lives to save 600 children from the Nazis during World War II. Given the global rise of antisemitism, and the fragility of the world, it is essential that we document this courageous story while survivors are still alive
A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism