![]() At the university, he studied history, art history, and Dutch. He attended the University of Amsterdam after he finished a commercial vocational college and having worked in an office for two years. ![]() As a child, he lived for a while with his family in Antwerp, Belgium. Presser himself in later life, also gravitated towards the left. His family was rather poor (his father was a diamond cutter), and his parents, who were secular Jews, had socialist leanings. Presser was born in the former Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Presser made a significant contribution to Dutch historical scholarship, as well as to European historical scholarship. Jacob (Jacques) Presser (24 February 1899 in Amsterdam – 30 April 1970 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch historian, writer and poet who is known for his book Ashes in the Wind (The Destruction of the Dutch Jews) on the history of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands during World War II. ![]() Hans Kolfschoten, Louis Paul Boon, Hanny Michaelis & Jacques Presser (1967) ![]()
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