Amsterdam Publishers
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| Founded | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Liesbeth Heenk |
| Country of origin | The Netherlands |
| Headquarters location | Oegstgeest |
| Nonfiction topics | Holocaust memoirs |
| Official website | amsterdampublishers |
Amsterdam Publishers is the largest publisher of Holocaust memoirs in Europe. It was founded in 2012 by Dutch art historian Liesbeth Heenk.[1]
History[]
Amsterdam Publishers started publishing ebooks on art in 2012.[2] One of their earliest releases was an ebook on Rembrandt etchings, published in Dutch, accompanied an exhibition on Rembrandt at the Teylers museum in Haarlem in 2013. It was the first time a digital publication accompanied an exhibition.[3] In 2015, the imprint started running self-publishing workshops, which was later accompanied by an instructional handbook published in Dutch.[4]
Amsterdam Publishers added their first non-art titles in 2014. Manny Steinberg’s Outcry – Holocaust Memoirs was an early commercial success.[5][6] Since 2018, the publisher has focused exclusively on Holocaust Memoirs. The founder, Liesbeth Heenk, has stated that the mission of the imprint is to fight anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.[7]
Amsterdam Publishers is one of the few publishing houses based in the Netherlands that no longer publishes in Dutch. Many of the authors are international, and books are published in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Japanese.[8]
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Holocaust memoirs
Amsterdam Publishers specialises in memoirs by Holocaust survivors, Second Generation survivors and Third Generation survivors.[9] These include memoirs by Manny Steinberg, Joseph Schupack, Janina Altman, Hank Brodt, Nanette Blitz Konig, Natalie Hess, Walter Leopold, Paul Davidovits, Robert Krell, Sara Lustigman Omelinksi, Jan Yohay Remetz and Leokadia Schmidt.[10][11] Many of these survivors can be found on this List of Holocaust survivors.
Memoirs by second and third generation survivors include Adena Bernstein Astrowsky, Zvi Wiesenfeld, Laura Beth Bakst, Nechama Birnbaum and Emanuel Rosen.[12][13]
Amsterdam Publishers has also published the memoirs of Omar Ndizeye and of Hyppolite Ntigurirwa, which detail their experiences of the Rwandan genocide.[14]
| Title | Author | Released | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs | Manny Steinberg | September 2014 | 9789082103137 |
| The Mission of Abbé Glasberg | Lucien Lazare | March 2016 | 1522840958 |
| The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs | Joseph Schupack | February 2017 | 9492371162 |
| Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise | Deborah Donnelly | April 2017 | 9492371219 |
| Among the Reeds: The true story of how a family survived the Holocaust | Tammy Bottner | June 2017 | 9492371286 |
| See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy!: War memories | Salo Muller | November 2017 | 9492371553 |
| A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America | Ettie Zilber | January 2019 | 9789493056022 |
| Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank | Nanette Blitz Konig | January 2019 | 9492371618 |
| Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto | Leokadia Schmidt | January 2019 | 9493056066 |
| Remembering Ravensbrück: From Holocaust to Healing | Natalie Hess | January 2020 | 9493056236 |
| My Lvov: Account of the Holocaust in Lvov by a twelve-year-old girl | Janina Hescheles | January 2020 | 9789493056367 |
| Life and Death in Nyamata: Memoir of a Young Boy in Rwanda’s darkest Church | Omar Ndizeye | March 2020 | 9493056481 |
| Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength | Adena Bernstein Astrowsky | March 2020 | 9789493056374 |
| Searching for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hidden Child | Joseph Gosler | May 2020 | 9493056341 |
| Wolf: A Story of Hate | Zeev Scheinwald | May 2020 | 9493056430 |
| Save my Children: An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero | Leon Kleiner | May 2020 | 9493056511 |
| Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir | Barbara Gilford | August 2020 | 9493056538 |
| Shoes of the Shoah: The Tomorrow of Yesterday | Dorothy Pierce | August 2020 | 9493056775 |
| Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from inside the Third Reich | Walter Leopold | August 2020 | 9493056554 |
| Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir | Evelyn Joseph Grossman | December 2020 | 9493056791 |
| The Man Across the River: The incredible story of one man's will to survive the Holocaust | Zvi Wiesenfeld | January 2021 | 9493231062 |
| Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart | Kenneth P. Price | January 2021 | 978949321085 |
| The Story Keeper: Weaving the Threads of Time and Memory. A Memoir | Fred Feldman | January 2021 | 9493231038 |
| If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died: A Memoir | Emanuel Rosen | March 2021 | 9493231135 |
| The House on Thrömerstrasse: A Story of Rebirth and Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust | Ron Vincent | March 2021 | 97894993231306 |
| Dancing with my Father: His hidden past. Her quest for truth. How Nazi Vienna shaped a family’s identity | Jo Sorochinsky | April 2021 | 9789493231191 |
| Krisia’s Silence. The Girl who was not on Schindler’s List | Ronny Hein | April 2021 | 9789493231382 |
| Defying Death on the Danube. A Holocaust Survival Story | Debbie J. Callahan with Henry Stern | April 2021 | 9789493231412 |
| In a Land of Forest and Darkness. The Holocaust Story of two Jewish Partisans | Sara Lustigman Omelinski | June 2021 | 9789493231337 |
| Sounds from Silence. Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher | Robert Krell | August 2021 | 9789493231467 |
| A Doorway to Heroism. A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero | W. Jack Romberg | September 2021 | 9789493231498 |
| The Shoemaker’s Son. The Life of a Holocaust Resister | Laura Beth Bakst | October 2021 | 9789493231641 |
| Holocaust Memories. Annihilation and Survival in Slovakia | Paul Davidovits | October 2021 | 9789493231528 |
| The Redhead of Auschwitz. A True Story | Nechama Birnbaum | November 2021 | 9789493231795 |
| From Auschwitz with Love. The Inspiring Memoirs of Two Sisters’ Survival, Devotion and Triumph | Daniel Seymour | January 2022 | 9789493231887 |
| Remetz. Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto | Jan Yohay Remetz | January 2022 | 9789493276024 |
| When the Music Stopped. Willy Rosen's Holocaust | Casey J. Hayes | January 2022 | 9789493276079 |
| Land of Many Bridges. My father’s story | Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz | February 2022 | 9789493231986 |
| Hands of Gold. One Man’s Quest To Find The Silver Lining In Misfortune | Roni Robbins | February 2022 | 9789493276109 |
| There was a garden in Nuremberg | Navina Michal Clemerson | March 2022 | 9789493231542 |
| The Corsetmaker. A Novel | Annette Libeskind Berkovits | March 2022 | 9789493231917 |
| On Sunny Days We Sang | Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman | March 2022 | |
| I Give You My Heart. A True Story of Courage and Survival | Wendy Holden | April 2022 | 9789493231719 |
| Creating Beauty from the Abyss. The Amazing Story of Sam Herciger, Auschwitz Survivor and Artist | Lesley Richardson | April 2022 | 9789493276109 |
| Painful Joy. A Holocaust Family Memoir | Max J. Friedman | April 2022 | 9789493231825 |
| Title to be confirmed | Suzette Sheft | April 2022 | |
| We Shall Not Shatter | Elaine Stock | May 2022 | 9789493231764 |
| Sabine’s Odyssey. A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers | Agnes Schipper | May 2022 | 9789493231948 |
| Monsters and Miracles. Horrors, Heroes and the Holocaust | Ira Wesley Kitmacher | May 2022 | |
| Flower of Vlore | Anna Kohen | July 2022 | |
| The Boy Behind the Door | David Tabatsky | September 2022 | |
| Our Daughters' last Hope | Elaine Stock | September 2022 | |
| The Girl who counted Numbers | Roslyn Bernstein | October 2022 | |
| The Aftermath | Annette Libeskind Berkovits | October 2022 | |
| Zaidy's War | Martin Bodek | October 2022 | |
| In the Time of Madmen | Mark A. Prelas | November 2022 |
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