Saving the Jews [Hardcover]

Mordecai Paldiel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

During the Holocaust's long nights there were gentiles in every corner of Europe who saved Jews. This is their story.

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Presented here are 47 accounts of Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, nonJews who have been honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as Righteous Gentiles. Paldiel, director of the Righteous Among the Nations program at Yad Vashem, was rescued (along with his family) by a French priest during the Holocaust; the priest helped them escape from France into Switzerland. Of the 70 people Paldiel chronicles (some accounts involve more than one person, and one story concerns 10 British POWs), Varian Fry is the only recognized hero. Fry, an American, saved thousands of Jews in France by providing them with escape routes and visas and passports--some valid, some false. Among the other men and women documented are a Lithuanian carpenter who hid 12 Jews (and was assassinated by a fellow Lithuanian in 1952), and a Turkish consul general in Rhodes who saved 50 Jews by declaring them to be Turks. This is a perceptive and moving account of little-known individuals who risked their lives and the lives of their loved ones. George Cohen
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This book serves as an antidote for those to whom the Holocaust is a cause for despair. -- Washington Jewish Week, December 14, 2000

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Schreiber,Shengold Publishing; 1 edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887563555
• ISBN-13: 978-1887563550
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone seeking true stories of selfless courage, March 10, 2001

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This review is from: Saving the Jews (Hardcover)

Saving The Jews: Amazing Stories Of Men And Women Who Defied The "Final Solution" is a magnificent compendium of stories of how almost 18,000 non-Jewish men and women from some 40 different countries risked their lives during World War II to save Jews from dying in the Nazi holocaust. While a few are well known (Schindler, Wallenberg, the Dutch friends and neighbors of Anne Frank and her family), most were of these "Righteous Gentiles" were known only to friends and family -- and the people whose lives they rescued. Saving The Jews is a remarkable, seminal work that is an enthusiastically recommended acquisition for holocaust studies, Judaic history collections, and the reading list of anyone seeking true stories of selfless courage in the face of overwhelming evil.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The story of the Righteous Gentiles, July 12, 2002

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This review is from: Saving the Jews (Hardcover)

Saving The Jews: Amazing Tories Of Men And Women Who Defied The "Final Solution" is the story of the Righteous Gentiles who sought to rescue Jewish men, women and children from certain death at the hands of the Nazis during the horrific years of World War II. Many were to be found out and sent to concentrations camps, experienced the atrocities of the camps and losing their own lives. Here are the stories of such well known figures as Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, and fifty other individuals throughout Europe who risked everything to save the lives of thousands of Jews targeted for extinction simply for being Jewish. Highly recommended reading, Saving The Jews is a welcome and invaluable contribution to the growing library of Holocaust Studies supplemental reading lists and reference collections.