Sanders, Ronald.

Storming the tulips / by Ronald Sanders ; translated & revised by Hannie J. Voyles. - Saint Louis, Mo. : Stonebrook Pub., c2011. - 164 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.

Translation from Dutch of In verband met de vermindering van het aantal kinderen--. Includes register of names of students of the 1st Montessori School, Amsterdam, who died in the Holocaust (p. 149-154).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 164).

Poem: The children -- Holland or the Netherlands -- The Nazi storm -- Herding the Jews -- Poem: Razzia in Amsterdam -- Timeline of restrictions -- Sifting the children, shuffling the schools -- My father, Jan van Dam -- The 1st Montessori School connection -- The exodus begins -- The suicide pact: The Pinkhof family -- Saved by my dog / From Nazi darling to starving prisoner / Even my baby sister / Stuffed in a cattle car / From the mouth of hell / A bullet through my knee / Begging for food / Sent off to strangers / Shuffled around the Netherlands / My parents imprisoned / Saving Jewish children / Bad boy / Nazi youth member / A German hiding Jews / From Communists to resistance workers / Picking pockets of the dead / Poem: This Was the Day -- Hiding Jewish children / Driven to the attic : the principal / Traversing the Netherlands / RAF pilot / Resistance fighters / Killed after the war ended / The search into our past -- Rollbook of the dead. David van Huiden -- Inge Preuss -- Bram Asscher -- Esther Santcroos -- Jet Edersheim -- Anny Morpurgo -- Cora Landzaat -- Roos Groenman -- Sal Groenman -- Floris Haak -- Elly de Zwart -- Fred Huijser -- Jan Ponne -- Karin de Jongh -- Rudi Leikies -- Hannie J. Ostendorf Voyles -- Jeanne Lindeman -- Wim F. Eijgenstein -- Sini Broerse -- Daniel Sajet -- Sape and Bram Kuiper -- Willem Zeeman --

Presents the stories of twenty students who attended the First Montessori School in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, discussing the hardships and tragedies the children faced when friends and family members disappeared, some were sent to death camps, some joined the Nazi youth, and some struggled to find food.

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.