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Emanuel Querido (6 August 1871 – 23 July 1943) was a successful Netherlands publisher as the founder and owner of N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij, which published Dutch titles, and of , which published titles of German writers in exile from Nazi Germany. Although he and his wife were murdered by the Nazis in 1943, his company has gone on to publish several important authors.
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 Books was published. It had been inspired by the Albatross Books book series published in Hamburg in 1932.
In 1933, after the rise of Hitler in Germany, many German authors of democratic attitude (and often Jewish) fled to the Netherlands. Because they could no longer publish in Germany, Querido offered to publish their works. He set up a separate publishing house for the political exiles under the German term, Querido Verlag, directed by the German publisher . From 1933 to 1940, Landshoff published 110 works in German, so-called German exile literature. In this literature, the exiles fought against the Nazi regime. The exiles tried to convince their host countries and the whole world that the Nazi regime was at the point of starting a war to rule the whole world.
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.
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