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Historical novel on Holland s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for awful errors
 
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The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform seminary and children s detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) - It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust.
But a week after its publication, a Dutch-language historical novel is at the heart of a controversy over whether the author twisted the historical record in ways that risk distorting public understanding of the genocide.  ....

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