Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine by Laureen Nussbaum, Karen Kirtley

Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine

Laureen Nussbaum, Karen Kirtley

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
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During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to adjudicate "doubtful cases." Calmeyer used his ass...

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