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Book of the Just
The stories of forty unsung heroes of the Holocaust honor the courage of rescuers from the Swiss Red Cross, a Portugese consul who wrote ten thousand visas in three days, a Japanese consul who saved the children of an entire yeshiva, and others.
175 pages, Hardcover
Published September 15, 1992
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April 13, 2011
There are some amazing stories in here, including several I hadn't heard of. Like the British POW who escaped his detention camp 19 times, smuggled arms to the Polish resistance, sabotaged the war effort, sent coded letters home to British intelligence, and saved over 400 Jews in Auschwitz. (Ironically, his last name was Coward.) This is a lot like Mordecai Paldiel's book The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, except not so intimidatingly long. Recommended for adults and children age 12 and up.
February 24, 2018
I'm interested in the bystander versus the hero: what makes an individual take action when others do nothing?
When applying that question to genocide, most of us would like to think that we'd do the right thing, yet history shows us the opposite to be true. This book tells the stories of some of those who did act to save Jews from Nazi extermination.
From the Romanian peasants who hid a single young man, to the German diplomat whose early warning helped to ensure all but 472 of Denmark's 7700 Jews escaped to neutral Sweden, the common thread is that they were not prepared to look the other way.
As German sergeant-major Hugo Armann put it, "I did little, but if many had done their little, it would have added up to much." Humbling.
When applying that question to genocide, most of us would like to think that we'd do the right thing, yet history shows us the opposite to be true. This book tells the stories of some of those who did act to save Jews from Nazi extermination.
From the Romanian peasants who hid a single young man, to the German diplomat whose early warning helped to ensure all but 472 of Denmark's 7700 Jews escaped to neutral Sweden, the common thread is that they were not prepared to look the other way.
As German sergeant-major Hugo Armann put it, "I did little, but if many had done their little, it would have added up to much." Humbling.
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