Karen Kirtley

About The Author

Karen Kirtley is a freelance editor and writer and avid music lover. She served as editorial director of Amadeus Press for several years, where she helped journalist Richard Newman put together the breathtaking biography Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz (Amadeus Press, 2000). Kirtley lives in Portland, OR.

Books by Karen Kirtley

Shedding Our Stars

The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine

By Laureen Nussbaum and Karen Kirtley
During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to adjudicate “doubtful cases.” Calmeyer used his assignment to save at least 3,700 Jews from deportati...
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