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...Otto Frank file measures at least half an inch thick, and page by page tells how the Franks tried desperately to escape from Nazi-occupied Holland. By the time Otto wrote his letters, the U.S. consulate in the Netherlands had closed, so he made attempts to arrange passage for his family to the United States or Cuba. He also explored possible escape routes through Spain that would ultimately lead to exit via neutral Portugal and sought visas to Paris...
...Claire M. Guehenno, Laurence H. M. Holland, Samuel P. Jacobs, and Daniel J. T. Schuker contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...they don’t compete with one another. “The degree of fragmentation across the schools and hospitals is such that sometimes we’re not even the sum of our parts,” Hyman says. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Paras D. Bhayani, Claire M. Guehenno, and Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...disaffected young Moroccan immigrant named Mohammed Bouyeri shot and killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street, slit his throat with a machete, and then calmly plunged a knife into his chest. The murder forced Holland to reassess its cherished postwar tolerance of immigrants. That discussion continues today across Europe, characterized by angry outbursts and a great deal of certainty about who, or what, is to blame. In Murder in Amsterdam, Buruma offers no such prescriptions. Instead, he brings a journalist's detachment to the debate, dissecting the violent rage of a "confused" and "muddled" Bouyeri...