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The seven stories in The Curtain reveal how two families -- one Jewish, and non-Jewish -- fared in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War 2. Each vignette highlights a specific aspect of life; all show how life changed for everyone, and forever.

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Henry Schogt s gentle memoir of wartime Amsterdam explores the past through eyes of a sensitive child experiencing the breakdown of the safe and the familiar. His brave parents righteous Gentiles who hid many Jews in their home at great risk to themselves merit a place of honour at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. - Erna Paris, award-winning author of Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

Looking back more than half a century, this fine memoir describes episodes in the lives of two Dutch families, one Jewish and one Gentile, during the dark days of the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands. Vivid detail mixes with keen analysis, recreating the sometimes desparate Dutch part in a global drama. Henry Schogt recounts how people coped caring for each other, hiding, dissimulating, enduring, accommodating, resisting, and in some cases succumbing to the Nazi tyranny. These pages are a memorial to a time and place that few of us have known directly, speaking to all who care about human suffering and rebirth.--Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto

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Henry G Schogt was born in the Netherlands in 1927 just before the great depression. Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Toronto and author of several scholarly books and articles, Henry G Schogt lives in Toronto.

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