Emanuel Querido
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Emanuel Querido | |
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Sobibor | |
Occupation | Publisher |
Relatives | Israël Querido (brother), Lotte Hellinga (granddaughter) |
Emanuel Querido (6 August 1871 – 23 July 1943) was a successful
Professional biography
In 1898 he decided to found a bookstore at the Binnen-Amstel in Amsterdam. The bookstore became a popular meeting point for Dutch intellectuals. Querido had close connections with the diamond-polishing trade and supplied the library of the Dutch labour union for diamond workers. When the bookstore started to become profitable, he turned to publishing books, such as a translation of Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena. The bookstore became a dispatching bookstore/publisher in Bloemendaal in 1911, but business did not go well and in 1913 the shop had to close.
After several other jobs, Querido started publishing house in Amsterdam, under his own name, near the Keizersgracht, in 1915. Meanwhile, he also wrote a large, ten-part work titled Het geslacht der Santeljano's (The lineage of the Santeljanos), in which he criticized his brother, the writer Israël Querido, of whom Emanuel was envious.
In 1934, Querido started the De Salamander (The Salamander), the first Dutch true paperback series, a year before the first Penguin was published. It had been inspired by the Albatross book series published in Hamburg in 1932.
In 1933, after the rise of
Only a few days after the occupation of Amsterdam, the Querido publishing house was struck by the German secret police Gestapo. They wanted to destroy this center of resistance. Querido had to leave the publishing business and with his wife retreated to the town of Laren where he had owned a house since 1929. The publishing company was put under the control of a national-socialist manager. Fritz Landshoff, a Jew and foe of the Nazis was by chance in London during the German advance to the Netherlands and succeeded in escaping to the United States. In 1943. Emanuel Querido and his wife went into hiding in the nearby town of Blaricum. They were betrayed and both fell into German hands and were murdered by the Nazis in Sobibor extermination camp on July 23, 1943.
References
- Martin Mauthner: German Writers in French Exile, 1933-1940, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-540-4
- A.L. Sötemann; Querido van 1915 tot 1990. Een uitgeverij. Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. Amsterdam 1990. ISBN 90-214-7236-8
- Fritz H. Landshoff; Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 333. Querido Verlag. Erinnerungen eines Verlegers., Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin und Weimar 1991. ISBN 3-351-00585-7
- C. J. Aarts, Het Salamanderboek. 1934-1984, Amsterdam: Querido, 1984.