A Quiet Courage: Per Anger, Wallenberg's Co-Liberator of Hungarian Jews [Hardcover]

Elizabeth R. Skoglund (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

1944. The Russians are advancing on Budapest. The Nazis, in a last desperate attempt to destroy Hungarian Jewry, have sent Adolf Eichmann to round up as many Jews as possible for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. This is the backdrop for Raul Wallenberg's story.

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From Library Journal

Skoglung (Amma: The Words of Amy Carmichael, Baker Bk. House, 1994) illuminates the life of Per Anger, the Swedish ambassador to Hungary and secret partner of Raoul Wallenberg in the liberation of Jews during the Holocaust. Skoglung traces Anger's life from his birth in Sweden in 1913 to his study of law to his career as a Swedish diplomat. During Anger's time as a diplomat in Budapest, Wallenberg was also designated a Swedish diplomat there. Together they helped many Jews by issuing illegal provisional passports and by using Swedish safe houses. Wallenberg even convinced a Nazi general to rescind the order to destroy a Jewish ghetto. After the war, Anger continued his diplomatic career. Skoglung has succeeded in writing an easy-to-follow biography of a Holocaust hero. Recommended for larger libraries.?Mary F. Salony, West Virginia Northern Community Coll. Lib., Wheeling
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 187 pages
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801011256
• ISBN-13: 978-0801011252
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,792,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in Chicago, into a Swedish immigrant family, Elizabeth Skoglund moved to Southern California at the age of three. She had many dreams for the future: missionary, teacher, doctor and even hoped to start an orphanage. Ultimately, she became a secondary teacher/counselor in the public school system, and then a psychotherapist/author. She was named Beautiful Activist in Los Angeles for the year 1973. In 2006-2007 she was honored as the Outstanding Scandinavian American by the American Scandinavian Foundation in recognition of her book A Quiet Courage and other communications about the Swedish World War II hero Per Anger. She is the author of 35 books and maintains a private counseling service in Glendale, California.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tribute To Ambassador Per Anger, May 25, 2000

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This review is from: A Quiet Courage: Per Anger, Wallenberg's Co-Liberator of Hungarian Jews (Hardcover)

Rarely do you have an opportunity to meet someone who has "made a difference in history." Ambassador Per Anger is just that sort of person. Elizabeth R. Skoglund touches on the thread that held people like Per Anger, Rauol Wallenberg and others together while they tried to help those escaping the Holocaust. For us now, we too can "make a difference".