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raised to mistrust the fabricated atrocity tales
R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton,
A History of the Modern World
, 8th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1995), 859.

194
Human beings will often substitute illusion
See M. Scott Peck,
The Road
Less Traveled: A New Psycholog y of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual
Growth
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).

195
it can be heard as a variation
See Kees Veenstra, page 116 and Pieter Meerburg, pages 147–48.

197
“we cannot wait for our leaders”
From Miep Gies’ speech at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, on March 3, 1996.

CHAPTER TWELVE ~ REFLECTIONS

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every other nation was offered
Found in the
Avodah Zarah
2b; Sifra; Brachah.

200
William James may have described
William James,
The Letters of
William James
, ed. Henry James, vol. 2 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926), 90.

COMMENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

208
when the genocide is referred to
James Carroll,
Constantine’s Sword
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001), 11.

211
“I never use the word”
Amos Oz,
Under This Blazing Light
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 81.

208
In composing this work
Bert Jan Flim,
Omdat Hun Hart Sprak:
Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde hulp aan Joodse kinderen in Nederland,
1942–1945
(Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok, 1996).

208
The dissertation was published
Ibid.

208
A condensation of that tome
Bert Jan Flim,
Saving the Children: History
of the Organized Effort to Rescue Jewish Children in the Netherlands 1942–1945
(Bethesda: CDL Press, 2005).

208
Jacob Presser, a Jewish survivor
J. Presser,
Ondergang. De vervolging
en verdelging van het Nederlandse jodendom 1940–1945
, pt 1 (The Hague, 1965).

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AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY

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Mark Klempner is a folklorist, historian, and social commentator. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, Klempner spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers in order to write
The Heart Has Reasons
. Klempner grew up in New York, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997, and winning a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000, he received an M.A. in folklore studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Klempner’s articles have appeared internationally in professional publications such as the
Oral History Reader
, as well as in the
Christian Science
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