Language Edition", in: Philip Mechanicus, Waiting for Death, a Diary. English translation by Irene R. Gibbons. London: Calder and Boyars, 1968, pp. 5–12 "Introduction", in: L.Ph. Polak and Liesbeth van Weezel (eds.), Documents of the persecution of the Dutch Jewry 1940–1945. Amsterdam: Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep/Jewish Historical Museum, 1969 (2nd ed. 1979), pp. 7–12 Literary works De Nacht der Girondijnen [The Night of the Girondins] (1957; 77 p., many reprints, translated into many languages) English translations: Breaking Point. Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958; reprint as pocket by Popular Library, 1959. The Night of the Girondists. Foreword by Primo Levi. London: Harper Collins, 1992. Orpheus en Ahasverus [Orpheus and Ahasveros. Poems]. Amsterdam: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 4th, augmented ed., 1969; 80 p.. Homo submersus [Man in Hiding] (A novel in the form of a diary by a Jew in hiding). Amsterdam: Boom Publishers, 2010; 528 p. (originally written in 1943-1944). Documentary Dingen die niet voorbijgaan [Things that never pass] (Philo Bregstein 1970, VARA television; text of the movie edited [in Dutch] in Gesprekken met Jacques Presser [Conversations with Jacques Presser], Philo Bregstein Amsterdam 1972, and Meulenhoff Filmtekst, Amsterdam 1981). The past that lives. English-language version of Dingen die niet voorbij gaan. For reference to the dvd-edition, see: https://jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/pastthatlives.htm Notes (Dutch and German Wikipedia articles on Presser were used as main sources for this article.) Awards Dr. Wijnaendts Francken Prize in 1947 for his book Napoleon. Historie en legende (Napoleon. History and Legend). Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize in 1957 for his book The Night of the Girondists. Knighthood, and membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The Remembrance Award in 1969 from the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations. External links Biography of Jacques PRESSER 1899 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Dutch historians Dutch Jews Dutch male poets Historians of the Holocaust Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Writers from Amsterdam University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam The Holocaust in the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch poets 20th-century male writers