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• catalog abstract "Ben Wessels and Kees W. Bolle were boyhood friends in the village of Oostvoorne, Holland, in the 1930s. Ten years later, Ben was struggling to survive in the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he perished in 1945 along with fellow inmate Anne Frank and over a million Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities. Decades later when he was visiting his friend Johan Schipper in Oostvoorne, Kees Bolle discovered a bundle of letters written by Ben. These letters documented in heartbreaking detail the terrifying journey of his family from an artificial ghetto cordoned off by the Germans in Amsterdam to the infamous transit camp at Westerbork and hence to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and other horrific landmarks of the German "final solution." Juxtaposing Ben's letters with reports from the Dutch underground press, both of which appear in English for the first time, Bolle creates a unique portrait of the Netherlands during World War II, one very different from the romantic vision of the Resistance often portrayed in other accounts. Unlike Yugoslavia, for example, Holland had no mountains to provide shelter for small bands of heroic fighters. Flat and densely populated, Holland had but one means to contest the Nazi occupation{u2014}the freedom of thought and word expressed in underground papers such as Vrij Nederland ("The Free Netherlands"), Trouw, and Het Parool in spite of heavy penalties imposed by German authorities. Bolle also includes reports from the underground press following the end of the war, with scenes of victory, celebration, and hope intermingled with concerns for the future of the Netherlands. On a tragic note, there is a final message to Johan Schipper confirming the death of Ben Wessels in Bergen-Belsen a month before the death camp was liberated by British troops in April 1945.".
• catalog contributor b12103864.
• catalog contributor b12103865.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description "Ben Wessels and Kees W. Bolle were boyhood friends in the village of Oostvoorne, Holland, in the 1930s. Ten years later, Ben was struggling to survive in the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he perished in 1945 along with fellow inmate Anne Frank and over a million Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities.".
• catalog description "Bolle also includes reports from the underground press following the end of the war, with scenes of victory, celebration, and hope intermingled with concerns for the future of the Netherlands. On a tragic note, there is a final message to Johan Schipper confirming the death of Ben Wessels in Bergen-Belsen a month before the death camp was liberated by British troops in April 1945.".
• catalog description "Decades later when he was visiting his friend Johan Schipper in Oostvoorne, Kees Bolle discovered a bundle of letters written by Ben. These letters documented in heartbreaking detail the terrifying journey of his family from an artificial ghetto cordoned off by the Germans in Amsterdam to the infamous transit camp at Westerbork and hence to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and other horrific landmarks of the German "final solution."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Juxtaposing Ben's letters with reports from the Dutch underground press, both of which appear in English for the first time, Bolle creates a unique portrait of the Netherlands during World War II, one very different from the romantic vision of the Resistance often portrayed in other accounts. Unlike Yugoslavia, for example, Holland had no mountains to provide shelter for small bands of heroic fighters. Flat and densely populated, Holland had but one means to contest the Nazi occupation{u2014}the freedom of thought and word expressed in underground papers such as Vrij Nederland ("The Free Netherlands"), Trouw, and Het Parool in spite of heavy penalties imposed by German authorities.".
• catalog extent "xxiv, 150 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ben's story.".
• catalog identifier "0809323745 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ben's story.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
• catalog relation "Ben's story.".
• catalog spatial "Netherlands".
• catalog spatial "Netherlands.".
• catalog subject "940.53/18/092 21".
• catalog subject "DS135.N6 W528 2001".
• catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Netherlands Personal narratives.".
• catalog subject "Jews Netherlands Biography.".
• catalog subject "Schipper, Johan Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Wessels, Benjamin Leo, 1926-1945 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Netherlands Underground literature.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Underground literature Netherlands.".
• catalog title "Ben's story : Holocaust letters with selections from the Dutch underground press / edited by Kees W. Bolle.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
• catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
• catalog type "text".