author
Max Rothschild
A young German Jewish refugee who survived Nazi persecution by going underground in the Netherlands, he later helped bring his wartime story to light. His writing offers a direct, deeply human view of resistance, fear, and survival during the Holocaust.
1 Audiobook
Gainsborough
by Max Rothschild
About the author
Max Rothschild is known for his wartime memoir Hiding in Holland, a firsthand account of surviving the Nazi occupation after fleeing Germany and arriving in the Netherlands in January 1939. The memoir draws on writings he preserved from that period and follows his experience as a Jewish refugee forced into hiding.
His story has been presented as both a personal survival narrative and a record of resistance during the Holocaust. Accounts of the book describe it as an intergenerational work, published with his daughter Paula J. Caplan, bringing his experience to new readers many years later.
Reliable biographical detail available online is limited, so it is safest to describe him primarily through this memoir and his documented survival story. What stands out most is the immediacy of his voice: a witness to persecution, displacement, and endurance whose story helps keep that history personal and real.