The authors of this strik­ing mem­oir, Hid­ing in Hol­land, sur­vivor Max Roth­schild and his daugh­ter Shu­lamit Rein­harz, tell the sto­ry of a Jew­ish man who saved his life repeat­ed­ly dur­ing the Holo­caust, even­tu­al­ly being hid­den by Dutch Right­eous Gen­tiles for three years. Hid­ing in Hol­land presents Max’s roller-coast­er ride of liv­ing and almost dying in Hol­land, explor­ing in depth what it meant to be an onder­duik­er. What was it like to hide in a broth­el or with some­one you didn’t like? What was it like to switch hid­ing loca­tions repeat­ed­ly? How did out­siders help? How did hiders deal with Nazi raids? And how did Max retain his sanity?

Max answers these ques­tions by offer­ing a new def­i­n­i­tion of ​“resis­tance” under­stood in terms of the Jew­ish person’s expe­ri­ence. Shu­lamit intro­duces his­tor­i­cal con­texts that chal­lenge the exag­ger­at­ed stereo­types of the val­or­ous Dutch. Togeth­er, this inner and out­er per­spec­tive helps explain why the Nether­lands had the worst record of Jew­ish anni­hi­la­tion of all West­ern Euro­pean coun­tries. Only now are Dutch gov­ern­ment lead­ers acknowl­edg­ing the truth.