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To Save a Life: STORIES OF HOLOCAUST RESCUE Paperback – December 29, 2006

by Ellen Land-Weber (Author)

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The Holocaust takes on a riveting immediacy in these true stories of the everyday, understated heroism that saved thousands of Jews from annihilation at the hands of the Third Reich. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, To Save a Life pairs the stories of a handful of rescuers with those of people they saved. Ellen Land-Weber creates a moving, multidimensional picture of the evasive strategies and heartstopping close calls that filled the years of the Holocaust for both rescuers and rescued. In paperback for the first time, the rescues narrate their growing awareness of the tightening circle of Nazi terror, their experiences in hiding, often being shunted from one safehouse to another, and their hair's-breadth separation from friends and family who did not escape. Promotional Information: Life-saving acts of heroism by ordinary people in the face of Nazi tyranny.

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"To Save a Life is more about the human capacity for selfless action and about memory than about history in any narrow sense. It should be read by a far wider audience, by anyone willing to entertain the possibility of hope." Houston Chronicle

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The Holocaust takes on a riveting immediacy in these true stories of an everyday, understated heroism that saved thousands of Jews from annihilation at the hands of the Third Reich. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, To Save a Life pairs the stories of a handful of rescuers with those of people they saved.

Ellen Land-Weber creates a moving, multidimensional picture of the evasive strategies and heartstopping close calls that filled the years of the Holocaust for both rescuers and rescued. In matter-of-fact tones, the rescuers describe how and why they put their lives on the line to protect Jews from the Nazis, committing daily acts of resistance that ranged from providing hiding places to procuring false passports and papers, from arranging for medical treatment to interceding with the Gestapo for Jews who had been arrested. The rescuees narrate their growing awareness of the tightening circle of Nazi terror, their experiences in hiding, often being shunted from one safehouse to another, and their hair's-breadth separation from friends and family who did not escape.

These stories of courage and risk, set in Holland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, represent a great many other stories of rescue that will never be documented. Rescuers came from every walk of life -- teachers, students, shopkeepers, factory workers, housewives, farmers -- and were quite unexceptional in most ways. However, by their heroic response to the extraordinary circumstances of Nazi control, these individuals helped reduce the devastation of the Holocaust, sometimes by a single person, sometimes more.

"On a certain day, I vanished from the earth", one of the rescuees recallsin To Save a Life. The human courage and determination that orchestrated the disappearance and consequent survival of these near victims of the Holocaust makes for gripping and inspiring reading.

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Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition (December 29, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252074025
ISBN-13: 978-0252074028
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,071,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2814 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > Jewish
- #6274 in Books > History > World > Jewish > Holocaust
- #7653 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Photojournalism & Essays > Photo Essays

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Moving & uplifting

By A Customer on October 25, 2000

Format: Hardcover

"To Save a Life" may move you to tears (it did me). You will read about the experiences of persecuted Jews and their rescuers during the Holocaust, as told in their own words. At the same time the stories in the book are also inspiring and even cheering -- it's wonderful to see how kind some people are in the most adverse situations. The author interviewed a select number of rescuers and some of the people they rescued, then edited their words into coherent stories in a way that lets the subjects' voices come through with simple clarity and grace. Additionally the book is illustrated with fascinating photographs, many from the war years, plus contemporary portraits taken by the author. This is a great book and a great read for all ages: history from the mouths of the people who lived it.

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Touching Stories

By A Customer on November 7, 2000

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A wonderful collection of memories and stories by Holocaust survivors and about both the people who saved them and the (unfortunate) ones who didn't try. Reading these stories places one in a time completely foreign to the world around us today, but reconnects one to what it means to be human and to be humane. A very moving collection. Highly recommended.

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Problems with Tina Strobos story

By Jerry G. Meents on June 25, 2006

Format: Hardcover

I have no problem with how many Jewish people she has helped or kept hidden in her home or grand Mothers home.

Here are the problems with Tina's story, Henry Polack, name is spelled wrong, it should be Henri Polak and the elaborate identity card was a picture ID with 2 prints of the right index finger

One finger print was put on a breakeble seal then glued on the back of paspoort picture for whom this ID was and one fingerprint on a other part of the ID, now if the picture was replaced with a other picture the finger print would not match.

Over the other finger prints a special glue was applied to make it almost impossible to remove.

Not as Tina states, I put there finger print(one only?)on the back of the photo.

Then Tina talks about listen to the BBC and as many 30-40 people came to listen most of them were Jewish.

Why would the Jewish people who were living in hiding would go out on the streets and walk, even in walking distance, one or five blocks? risk there lives to go listen to a radio broadcast.

Now there are listering to a illegal radio station and live in hiding, and with 30-40 people in a room?and nobody noticed all those people going in to one building.

Tina also talke's a bout the old Jewish quarter,we who lived there called a neighborhood,as one of the nices neighborhoods in Amsterdam, not at all poverty-stricken.

On a other page with a picture of the old Jewish quarter,she discrbe this same old Jewish quater completely the opposite, she says here that this it was one of the poorest disticts of Amsterdam, filled with alleys, and slums.

Sorry Tina,you can't have it both ways.Read more ›

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