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02640aam a2200433 i 4500 001 642D30BCF5B211EBBE1F64065AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210805010008 008 210722t20212021mnuac e b 000 0deng d 020 $a 1950354563 020 $a 9781950354566 035 $a (OCoLC)1261275886 040 $a GL4 $b eng $e rda $c GL4 $d GL4 $d UOK $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h dut 043 $a e-li--- $a e-li--- 082 04 $a 940.531835092 $2 23 100 1 $a Brokken, Jan, $e author. 240 10 $a Rechtvaardigen. $l English 245 14 $a The just : $b how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust / $c Jan Brokken ; translated by David McKay. 246 30 $a How six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust 250 $a US edition. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Scribe Publications, $c 2021. 300 $a vi, 478 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Originally published in Dutch as De rechtvaardigen. Amsterdam : Atlas Contact, 2018. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul. In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate Jewish refugees faced annihilation in the Holocaust. That was when Zwartendijk, with the help of Chiune Sugihara, the consul for Japan, and the Dutch ambassador in Riga, Latvia -- chose to break his country's diplomatic rules. He opened up a possible route to freedom through the ruse of issuing visas to the Dutch colony of Curacao on the other side of the world... Most of the Jews whom Zwartendijk helped escape survived the war, and they and their descendants settled in America, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Zwartendijk and Sugihara were true heroes, and yet they were both shunned by their own countries after the war, and their courageous, unstinting actions have remained relatively unknown."-- $c provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Dutch. 600 10 $a Zwartendijk, Jan, $d 1896-1976. 650 0 $a Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust $z Netherlands. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Rescue $x Rescue $z Lithuania. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a McKay, David, $d 1973- $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010024212.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210902010611.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210805010052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=642D30BCF5B211EBBE1F64065AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search