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[email protected] [email protected] Sponsor: Stichting Werkgroep Herkenning www.werkgroepherkenning.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 42, Spring 2016 INTRODUCTION The Dutch historian J. Presser who wrote a study on the Persecution and Murder of the Dutch Jews, wrote also poems. I translated one of them for the IB. In December 2015, a symposium was held in Vienna, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Austrian Encounter, a group of adult children of either victims of the Holocaust or offspring of Nazi's or bystanders. Samson Munn sent me a short report about the program and he gave me permission to make a summary of one of his presentations. Linked to his story about how The Austrian Encounter was initiated, I present to you some paragraphs of Bobbie Goldman's report on the first two meetings of TAE. Besides, I publish some lines on the start of KOMBI, the Dutch organization of war children of different backgrounds. I came accross two books which I read with much interest. On the internet I found a couple of book reviews and I chose to publish those which I feel draw best attention to the principal themes of these novels: The Absolutionist by John Boyne and The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers. Boyne's story presents heroism versus cowardice, right versus wrong, guilt versus forgiveness. Seghers depicts poignantly the impact of dictatorship on the lives of the citizens. Ruth Barnett, one of the readers of the IB, wrote a book “Love, Hate and Indifference”.