All 29 Uses
Holland
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
(Edited)
- Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
p. 9.9Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
- My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother.
p. 9.9
- Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.
p. 10.1
- In the summer of 1940 we didn't do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland.
p. 11.4
- ...there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
p. 30.5 *Holland = informal reference to the Netherlands
- If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them?
p. 59.9Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
- The Christians in Holland are also living in fear because their sons are being sent to Germany.
p. 87.8
- Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil.
p. 87.9
- Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread.
p. 88.5
- The province of Utrecht will be cleansed of Jews [as if they were cockroaches] between April 1 and May 1, and the provinces of North and South Holland between May 1 and June 1.
p. 102.9
- All of Holland is being punished for the workers' strikes.
p. 108.2
- We don't know how many people are actually in hiding; of course, the number is relatively small compared to the general population, but later on we'll no doubt be astonished at how many good people in Holland were willing to take Jews and Christians, with or without money, into their homes.
p. 110.1
- The papers are full of invasion news and are driving everyone insane with such statements as: "In the event of a British landing in Holland, the Germans will do what they can to defend the country, even flooding it, if necessary."
p. 194.9
- They've published maps of Holland with the potential flood areas marked.
p. 195.1
- The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they'll all die.
p. 196.1
- Contrary to my usual practice, I'm going to write you a detailed description of the food situation, since it's become a matter of some difficulty and importance, not only here in the Annex, but in all of Holland, all of Europe and even beyond.
p. 267.7
- She used words like "soon, when I'm back in Holland,"
p. 316.7
- I can safely say that all of Amsterdam, all of Holland, in fact the entire western coast of Europe, all the way down to Spain, are talking about the invasion day and night, debating, making bets and ...hoping.
p. 324.8
- No one can see farther than the end of their nose, no one gives a thought to the fact that the British are fighting for their own country and their own people; everyone thinks it's England's duty to save Holland, as quickly as possible.
p. 325.2
- It's being said in underground circles that the German Jews who immigrated to Holland before the war and have now been sent to Poland shouldn't be allowed to return here.
p. 326.5
- They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.
p. 326.6
- And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meager handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go.
p. 327.2
- I love Holland.
p. 327.3
- Now it's not just the Jews, but Holland and all of occupied Europe.
p. 336.6
- Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries.
p. 339.8
- After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England.
p. 339.8
- What would have become of Holland and its neighbors if England had signed a peace treaty with Germany, as it's had ample opportunity to do?
p. 340.1
- Holland would have become German, and that would have been the end of that!
p. 340.1
- Mussert has announced that if the invasion reaches Holland, he'll enlist.
p. 347.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(Holland) Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Holland can refer to a person's name.