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Angels of Amsterdam

How a Band of Brave Women Outsmarted the Nazis to Save 600 Jewish Children

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By Susan B. Katz

By Esther Shaya

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On Sale
Jan 12, 2027
Page Count
400 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316597500

Price

$32.00

Price

$42.00 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $32.00 $42.00 CAD
  2. ebook $16.99 $21.99 CAD
  3. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99

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For fans of Irena’s Children and The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, the never-before-told story of a Jewish daycare director who led one of the most daring rescue operations of World War II, saving 600 children from the Netherlands’ Nazi occupiers—“a rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism” (Mitch Albom).

Henriëtte Pimentel was an unlikely heroine. But when Nazi Germany invaded her native Holland and turned the theater next to her daycare into a detention center for Jewish families, she knew that she had to act. Recruiting young women and teenagers from her staff, Pimentel became the mastermind behind one of the boldest and most elaborate rescue operations of World War II, hiding and smuggling hundreds of children out of Amsterdam right under the noses of their Nazi captors—children who would have otherwise been deported to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Sobibor. Armed with an array of clever tricks to deceive SS officers—trading baby dolls for children, handing their wards over hedges, and bundling them off in carts—Pimentel and her associates successfully saved as many of their charges as they could from near-certain death. Tragically, Pimentel herself would not survive: she, too, was eventually sent to her death. But her courage and that of her fellow resistors lives on in the survivors from her daycare, some of whom are in their 80s and 90s today.
 
Drawing on extensive research and original interviews with survivors and former teenage resistance workers, ANGELS OF AMSTERDAM is an astonishing true story of wartime solidarity and courage, immortalizing one of the most remarkable acts of anti-Nazi resistance ever recorded.

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Susan B. Katz

About the Author

As the granddaughter of Eastern-European, Jewish immigrants—some of whom came through the Netherlands—Susan B. Katz is deeply dedicated to keeping Holocaust stories alive. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling author of dozens of children’s books; her body of work includes biographies of The Story of Jane Goodall, The Story of Albert Einstein, and The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (all bestsellers), among others. She has also launched and ran Facebook and Instagram’s author verticals. ANGELS OF AMSTERDAM is her first work of narrative non-fiction for adults. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Esther Shaya is the author of two prior books, both published exclusively in Dutch—Harry & Sieny: Surviving in Resistance and Love and Just Wait: The Heroic Life of Henriette Pimentel. Since 2015, Shaya has been a board member, editor, and author of the “Jewish Houses Foundation,” which publishes one book each year on prewar stories about the Jewish community in the Netherlands. Shaya has been interviewed on national radio and TV and has been a guest speaker about Henriëtte Pimentel’s daycare center numerous times in the Netherlands, United States, and Australia. She lives in Amsterdam.

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Esther Shaya

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