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Motherland : Growing Up with the Holocaust by Rita Goldberg is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Like Anne Frank, Hilde Jacobsthal was born in Germany and brought up in Amsterdam, where the two families became close. Unlike Anne Frank, she survived the war, and Otto Frank was to become godfather to Rita, her first daughter. "I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically. This book tells the story of my mother's dramatic life before, during and after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. "I wrote Motherland because I wanted to understand a story which had become a kind of family myth. My mother's life could be seen as a narrative of the twentieth century; along with my father she was present and active at many of its significant moments." Rita Goldberg Hilde Jacobsthal was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland. After the arrest of her parents in 1943 she fled to Belgium, where she went into hiding and worked with the Resistance at night. She was liberated by the American army in 1944. In April 1945 she volunteered with a British Red Cross Unit to go to the relief of Bergen-Belsen, which had itself been liberated one week before her arrival. The horror and devastation were overwhelming, but despite her shock and grief s

Who reads Motherland : Growing Up with the Holocaust?

Author

Rita Goldberg

Publisher

Halban; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781905559626

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.71 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14