Alumni Book Presentation:
“Telling the Resistance Story to an Anglophone Audience – Under Nazi Noses”
Thursday, April 25 date, 4:30 to 7 pm, Verzetsmuseum
An Oxford Alumnus is presenting his book in the Netherlands – all alumni and guests welcome!
The Translator-Editor-Annotator of “Under Nazi Noses”
The speaker, John Tepper Marlin, is a graduate of both Harvard (where he majored in European History and Literature and wrote the first edition of Harvard’s “Let’s Go” Guide to Europe) and of Oxford. He has written a book about Oxford College Armns. He is related to Walraven van Hall, who is the subject of Erik Schaap’s Dutch book. Walraven’s mother and wife were independently cousins of Marlin’s Dutch mother and Boissevain grandmother.
Description of the Event
Marlin has a slide show with 20 slides to illustrate the different phases of the Nazi Occupation and Walraven van Hall’s role in it. Van Hall raised $1 billion for the Resistance, in gifts, loans, and… mostly from removal of financial assets from the Dutch State Bank. How he did it will be explained. He was betrayed and caught and, after waiting as a Todescandidat, he was executed near the end of the Occupation. The book has 750 endnotes to explain historical and place allusions that are in Schaap’s book that might be difficult to appreciate for someone not brought up in the Netherlands. Dr. Marlin wishes to hear from the audience and will ask questions. He would also like to sell the book (a percentage will go to Erik Schaap).
Ticket Cost: Attendance is 11 EUR. Books will be available for sale for equivalent of $20. Those buying an admission ticket can obtain a book for 16 EUR prepaid.
The book was on the Oxford alumni March Booklist—one of only seven books—in the QUAD online alumni magazine.
The Oxford and Cambridge Society of the Netherlands 