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History Extra podcast

A WW2 story of survival

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Cut Out Girl author Bart van Es gives a lecture on the Jewish children who survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in the Netherlands


In a lecture he delivered at our 2019 Chester History Weekend, based on his Costa Prize-winning book The Cut Out Girl, Bart van Es explores the stories of the thousands of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in the Netherlands.



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0:00.0

I'm Ben Bailey Smith and this is a Prisons Guide 2, a new podcast series from A-Cost

0:07.6

Created along with HM Prison and Probation Service.

0:11.2

A guide not from CEOs, entrepreneurs or celebrities, but from some more overlooked sources of inspiration,

0:17.9

the people who work for the prison service across England and Wales.

0:22.7

A Prisons Guide 2, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:52.7

I'm Ellie Corthon.

0:59.7

Today you'll hear another lecture from our 2019 History Weekend in Chester.

1:04.8

The speaker is Bart Van Ass, author of The Cut Out Girl, which won the costabuck of the

1:09.6

year award.

1:11.5

In this talk, Bart tells the extraordinary story of the Jewish children who lived in hiding

1:16.7

in the Netherlands during the Second World War.

1:25.1

Thank you.

1:26.1

So I'd like to begin by introducing you to somebody.

1:30.3

This is a photograph that I took on the 21st of December 2014 when I pressed a buzzer

1:38.5

on an apartment block in Amsterdam, went up to the third floor, steps out the lift.

1:47.0

And there was this lady, who began to circle me slowly, an 82-year-old lady.

1:54.2

And after about five minutes of looking at me, she said, you look more like your mother.

2:00.4

And she invited me into this apartment that was full of modern art.

2:04.4

It had cultural supplements under the coffee tables, seasoned ticket to the opera.

2:12.2

Really somebody who looked anything but the stereotypical Holocaust victim.

2:18.0

And she kind of immediately felt to me like family.

2:22.7

But I also knew that while this person had been part of my family a long time, she was

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