Book Nook - Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir

 Max Rothschild and his daughter Shulamit Reinharz tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during the Holocaust, eventually being hidden by Dutch Righteous Gentiles for three years. 

Hiding in Holland presents Max's roller-coaster ride of living and almost dying in Holland, exploring in depth what it meant to be an onderduiker. What was it like to hide in a brothel or with someone you didn’t like? What was it like to switch hiding locations repeatedly? How did outsiders help? How did hiders deal with Nazi raids? And how did Max retain his sanity?

Max answers these questions by offering a new definition of “resistance” understood in terms of the Jewish person’s experience.

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Published by Amsterdam Publishers.

About the Author

Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam to German Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis in Sociology and started her career at the University of Michigan. She joined the Sociology Department at Brandeis and later directed the Women's Studies Program.

She created the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of Jews and gender, and the Kniznick Gallery of Feminist Art. She received “Best Book of the Year” for Feminist Methods in Social Research (Oxford) and is a founding editor of the Israeli-American academic journal, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish and Gender Studies. Her latest book is Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir (Amsterdam Publishers). 

A Fellow of International Gender Studies at Oxford, Shulamit is the author of 75 articles and many grants. For the last eight years, she has worked with the current residents of Gunzenhausen, Germany and descendants of Jewish survivors to foster understanding.