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Center hosts author’s stories of (April 7, 2008) – Siouxland author James C. Schaap will discuss stories of the Dutch Resistance at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 10 at the Betty Strong Encounter Center on the Missouri Riverfront. The event is presented as part of the third annual Tolerance Week observance, sponsored by the Gerald L. and Kathleen A. Weiner Foundation. Admission will be free. Schaap’s presentation, titled “Prelude to the Holocaust,” will consider one of the lesser told stories of Nazi occupation forces in Europe during World War II: how the Nazis went about "dejudification," the desire to rid all of Europe of its Jewish population. “What history shows is a strategy that was as managed and thoughtful as any purposeful marketing plan. That mass murder could be so deliberate and strategized is almost unthinkable. But it was,” says Schaap, a professor of literature and writing at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Iowa. Dutch people, such as Diet Eman, who came to the aid of Jews are featured in “The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance,” a film that will be shown at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 9 at the Orpheum Theater. Schaap wrote the original screenplay for the award-winning film. Eman will attend the event. “This is a story of ordinary people who became extraordinary heroes when they resisted the Nazi ‘final solution,’” says Schaap. “The campaign of Nazi terror was diabolical. That it was thought through as fully as it was is a testimony to evil. That ordinary people resisted is a testimony that, like the Holocaust itself, should never been forgotten. Schaap’s non-fiction work also includes “Crossing Over: Stories of Asian Refugee Christians.” He wrote the novels “Romey’s Place,” “In the Silence There Are Ghosts,” “The Secrets of Barneveld Calvary,” “Touches the Sky” and “Startling Joy,” a collection of Christmas stories. The Betty Strong Encounter Center, exit 149 off I-29, is a private, non-profit institution built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD) and connected to the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center. Admission, all programs, exhibits and activities are free. For more information, visit www.siouxcitylcic.comm or call 712.224-5242.
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