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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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Mar 9, 2027
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Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668661109

One of the most daring rescue operations of World War II was spearheaded by an unlikely heroine: a Jewish daycare director. 

When Nazis invaded the Netherlands and turned the theater across from her daycare into a detention center for Jewish families, Henriëtte Pimentel knew she had to act. Recruiting young women and teenagers from her staff, Pimentel became one of the linchpins in a bold, elaborate, underground network—one that smuggled Jewish children to safety right out from under the noses of the Nazis. Swapping dolls for babies, handing their wards over hedges, and bundling infants off in laundry baskets, Pimentel and her fellow Dutch resistors formed a rescue chain that prevented hundreds of children from meeting near-certain death in concentration camps. Her courage, and that of likeminded upstanders, lives on today through the survivors from her daycare and generations of their descendants.

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 yet least known 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, bilingual author of more than 80 books. Her body of work includes the biographies The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (an Amazon bestseller at #18 overall and #9 among all kids’ books) and Gaudí: Architect of Imagination (a Junior Library Guild award winner.) Several of Ms. Katz’s other titles have garnered: the International Book Award, Moonbeam Gold, starred reviews from School Library Journal, Amazon Editor’s Best Books selection, a spot on the Bank Street Book List, and a National Parent Product Award Seal. Susan is a semi-professional wildlife photographer, an avid snorkeler, and a salsa/samba/merengue dancer. She lives just north of San Francisco, California. Find out more at susankatzbooks.com.

Esther Shaya is the author of two prior books, both published exclusively in Dutch—Harry & Sieny: Overleven in verzet en liefde [Harry & Sieny: Surviving in Resistance and Love] and Wacht maar: Het veelbewogen leven van Henriëtte Pimentel [Just Wait: The Heroic Life of Henriëtte Pimentel]. Since 2015, Shaya has been a board member, editor, and author for the Stichting Joodse Huizen (Jewish Houses Foundation), which published one book each year on prewar stories about the Jewish community in the Netherlands from 2014 until 2024. 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, the United States, and Australia. She lives in Amsterdam.

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