The Ambiguity of Virtue

by Bernard Wasserstein

Book Overview

In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle-aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281381
• ISBN13: 9780674281387
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.7"