Prologue -- "Ruined woman" -- Rebuilding lives -- "Death ships" -- Gertrude's war -- Mission to Lisbon -- Crisis of conscience -- Help for the departing -- Trading with the enemy -- To the bitter end -- Last exit from Amsterdam -- Aftermath -- A reckoning -- Epilogue
Summary
Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation
