Emanuel Querido

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Emanuel Querido

Emanuel Querido (born August 6, 1871 in Amsterdam , † July 23, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was a Dutch publisher .

Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 333, seat of Emanuel Querido's publishers (2011)

Life

Emanuel Querido came from a Jewish - Sephardic family of Portuguese origin from Amsterdam. His father worked as a diamond cutter, his brother was the writer Israël Querido (1872–1932), his granddaughter Lotte Hellinga .

After initially working in the diamond industry, Querido opened his own bookstore on the Binnenamstel in Amsterdam in 1898 and also began publishing books. In 1911 he moved the business to Bloemendaal as a mail order bookshop , but had to close it in 1913 for economic reasons. In 1915 he founded the publishing house Em. Querido's Uitgeversmaatschappij NV, based in Keizersgracht 333 in Amsterdam, and became a successful entrepreneur. In 1934 he founded the Salamander series, the first paperback series in the Netherlands.

In April 1933 he founded the Querido Verlag for German-language exile literature as a subsidiary with Fritz Landshoff, who had fled Germany .

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, the publishing house in Amsterdam was closed by the Gestapo . Querido and his wife Jane Querido-Kozijn retired to Laren , where they had been living privately since 1929. In 1943 they went to a hiding place in neighboring Blaricum , but were betrayed, taken to Sobibor and murdered there.

literature

  • Gerard Aalders: Robbed! The expropriation of Jewish property in World War II . Dittrich, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-920862-29-3 .
  • Arjen Fortuin, Hugo van Doornum, Willem van Toorn: hidden boeken. Em. Querido's Uitgeverij tijdens en na de bezetting . Querido, Amsterdam 2015, ISBN 978-90-214-5808-3 .
  • Fritz H. Landshoff: Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 333. Querido Verlag. A publisher's memories. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-351-00585-7 .
  • AL Sötemann: Querido van 1915 dead 1990. Een uitgeverij . Querido, Amsterdam 1990, ISBN 90-214-7236-8 .
  • Willem van Toorn: Emanuel Querido 1871-1943. Een leven met boeken . Querido, Amsterdam 2015, ISBN 978-90-214-5889-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Querido, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1943
Place of death Sobibor extermination camp