Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0841913234
ISBN 13
9780841913233
Category
Biography
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
255
Description
A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries. - from Amzon
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