The Just
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Dutch consul in Lithuania found a way to save the lives of thousands of Jewish people who had fled Poland, by giving them visas for the Dutch island of Curaçao in the Caribbean. Visas in hand, the refugees were able to take the Trans-Siberian railway to Japan and then disperse to all four corners of the globe. The vast majority of them survived the war.
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Original title
De rechtvaardigen
Author
Jan Brokken
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Jan Brokken
Jan Brokken (b. 1949) is a writer of novels, travel stories and literary non-fiction. He has garnered international fame with, among other books, 'The Blind Passengers', 'My Little Madness', 'Baltic Souls', 'In the Poet’s House', 'The Reprisal', 'The Cossack’s Garden', 'The Just', 'City Pilgrim' and 'The Camp Painters'. His work has been translated into Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish and many more.