My Holocaust, Too
In My Holocaust, Too, Maurits de Bruijn examines how his mother’s ordeals influenced his own life.
Non-Fiction
Author
Maurits de Bruijn
Original title
Ook mijn Holocaust
It wasn’t until he was an adult that he discovered, during a trip to Israel, that his mother was Jewish, and that, naturally, this made him Jewish too. When they were deported, her parents had entrusted his mother to Christian neighbours, who ended up raising her. With candour and irony, De Bruijn describes how this history had a knock-on effect.
“'My Holocaust, Too' is a tender account of a journey, a family and a life. A book to treasure.”
Trouw
“This personal account draws you in and makes you think.”
Nederlands Dagblad
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Maurits de Bruijn
Maurits de Bruijn (b. 1984) is queer, Jewish, and grew up in a Protestant family. He works as an essayist, visual artist,
podcaster, journalist and editor for an arts magazine. He has written three novels to date. His memoir 'Ook mijn holocaust' (My Holocaust Too, 2020), in which he explores how his mother’s wartime past shaped his childhood and life, was received to great critical acclaim in the Netherlands and has been translated into German.