Salo Muller (1936)

Moving Holocaust memoir by a Dutch boy who went into hiding.

“See you tonight, and promise to be a good boy!” were the last words Salo Muller’s mother said to him in 1942 as she took him to school in Amsterdam, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. She and her husband were arrested a few hours later and taken to Westerbork, from where they were later transported to Auschwitz.

The “why” of the tragedy is something he cannot let go:

“Hardly a day goes by w...

Wards of State: In the Netherlands, minors who have been placed under state supervision or have been removed from their home environment at the order of Youth Care are what we call wards of state.

Youth care in the Netherlands is a market that is driven by perverse incentives, as this book makes clear. A market where expansion and money take precedence over the welfare of young people. A world in which truth and the best possible care are not of paramount importance.

The research concerns t...