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Heroes Of The Holocaust
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Author : Lyn Smith
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Heroes Of The Holocaust written by Lyn Smith and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with History categories.
Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers. And yet many of their stories have been forgotten. Frank Foley, a British spy whose cover was working at the British embassy in Berlin, took huge risks issuing forged visas to enable around 10,000 Jews to escape Germany before the outbreak of war. Jane Haining refused to come back to Scotland and leave the Jewish orphans in her care in Hungary. When they were sent to Auschwitz she was transported with them. Louise and Ida Cook were sisters from suburban London. They used their love of opera as a cover to take daring trips to help Jews escape Nazi Germany and Austria right up until the outbreak of war. Ten British POWs hid and cared for young Hannah Sarah Rigler when she escaped from a death march, having been forced to leave her mother behind. All those whose stories are collected here were ordinary people, acting on no one's authority but their own, who found they could not stand idly by in the face of such great evil. Written by acclaimed Holocaust historian Lyn Smith, Heroes of the Holocaust is a moving testament to the bravery of those whose inspiring actions stand out in stark relief at a time of such horror.
Holocaust Hero
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Author : David Kranzler
language : en
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Release Date : 2004
Holocaust Hero written by David Kranzler and has been published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
One of the most remarkable heroes of the Holocaust was Solomon Schonfeld, a young British rabbi who personally rescued thousands of Jews during the tragic decade of 1938-1948. Rabbi of a small Orthodox congregation and pioneer of the Jewish day school movement in London, England, Schonfeld was inspired by Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, to get into rescue work. Under the auspices of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, this dynamic and charismatic personality, single handedly brought to England several thousand youngsters, as well as rabbis, teachers, ritual slaughterers, and other religious functionaries. Schonfeld obtained kosher homes, Jewish education, and jobs for his charges. He also created unique mobile synagogues--the first to serve the spiritual and physical needs of the survivors in the liberated areas of Europe. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the British government to bomb Auschwitz. This fascinating biography, with a focus on his rescue efforts, includes his struggles with the assimilationist Anglo-Jewish leadership, as well as forty vignettes by individuals he rescued.
Heroes Of The Holocaust
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Author : Rebecca Love Fishkin
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2011
Heroes Of The Holocaust written by Rebecca Love Fishkin and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
German leader Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime killed more than 6 million Jews during World War II. Many of those who survived had courageous gentiles and Jews to thank. Heroes of the Holocaust tells the stories of those who defied and resisted the Nazis. Some helped one person or family, some saved dozens, and others organized efforts that helped thousands. Their combined courage helped stop Hitler from wiping out the entire European Jewish population.
I M No Hero
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Author : Henry Friedman
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
I M No Hero written by Henry Friedman and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had worked at their farm. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and a young schoolteacher—who had been hired by his father when Jews were forbidden to attend school—were hidden in a loft over the animal stalls at a neighbor’s farm; his father hid in another hayloft half a mile away. When the family was liberated by the Russians after eighteen months in hiding, Henry, at age fifteen, was emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria where Henry learned quickly to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities and mastering the intricacies of dealing in the black market. In I’m No Hero, he confronts with unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and the bizarre comedy of his passage to adulthood. The family came to Seattle in 1949, where Henry Friedman has made his home ever since. In 1988 he returned with his wife to Brody and Suchowola, where he succeeded in finding Julia Symchuk, who, as a young girl, had warned his father that the Gestapo was looking for him, and whose family had hidden the Friedmans in their loft. The following year he was able to bring Julia to Seattle for a triumphal visit, where she was honored in many ways, although, as Friedman writes, “in her own country she had never been honored with anything except hard work.” Like many other survivors, Henry Friedman has found it difficult to confront his past. Like others, too, he has felt the obligation to bear witness. Now retired, he devotes much of his time to telling his story, which he believes is a message of hope, to thousands of schoolchildren throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has received national recognition for his role in establishing the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and as a founder of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center.
Schindler Wallenberg Miep Gies
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Author : David K. Fremon
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-09
Schindler Wallenberg Miep Gies written by David K. Fremon and has been published by Enslow Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The heroes of the Holocaust were individuals who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews from certain death. In SCHINDLER, WALLENBERG, MIEP GIES: THE HOLOCAUST HEROES, author David K. Fremon recounts the actions some people took to save the lives of thousands of people trying to escape from the Nazis and their deadly persecution. Some heroes are now famous, but many unknown heroes took action to forge false identity papers, leave out food for refugees, and hide Jews in their homes. This book is developed from THE HOLOCAUST HEROES to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
The Holocaust Heroes
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Author : David K. Fremon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Holocaust Heroes written by David K. Fremon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Heroes categories.
The Holocaust Heroes recounts the actions some people took to save the lives of thousands of people trying to escape from the Nazis and their deadly persecution. Author David K. Fremon describes the bravery of the many who risked their own lives to save others during the Holocaust. Their heroic activities ranged from forging false identity papers to leaving out food for refugees to hiding Jews in their homes
Sasha Pechersky
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Author : Selma Leydesdorff
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-19
Sasha Pechersky written by Selma Leydesdorff and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-19 with History categories.
On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, was considered suspect by the Russian government simply because he had been imprisoned. In this volume, Selma Leydesdorff describes the official silence in the Eastern Bloc about Pechersky’s role in the Sobibor escape and how an effort was made to recognize his actions. The narrative is based on eyewitness accounts from people in Pechersky’s life and a discussion of the mechanism of memory, mixing written sources with varied recollections and assessing the collisions of collective memory held by the East and the West. Specifically, this book critiques the ideological refusal of many societies to acknowledge the suffering of Jews at Sobibor. Offering fascinating insights into a crucial period of history, emphasizing that Jews were not passive in the face of German violence, and exploring the history of the Jews who fell victim to Stalinism after surviving Nazism, this is valuable reading for students and scholars of the Holocaust and the position of Jews under Communism.
The Righteous Of Switzerland
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Author : Meir Wagner
language : en
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Release Date : 2001
The Righteous Of Switzerland written by Meir Wagner and has been published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The English edition includes statements and speeches by various persons (pp. xvii-xxxviii), the stories of two more Swiss citizens nominated by Yad Vashem for recognition as Righteous of the Nations, and other lesser-known accounts of Swiss citizens who helped save Jews during the war. Some of them are published here for the first time.
Unlikely Heroes
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Author : Ari Kohen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-05-01
Unlikely Heroes written by Ari Kohen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-01 with History categories.
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population in Nazi-occupied Europe. As inspiring figures and role models, rescuers challenge us to consider how we would act if we found ourselves in similarly perilous situations of grave moral import. Their stories speak to us and move us. Yet this was not always the case. Seventy years ago these brave men and women, today regarded as the Righteous Among the Nations, went largely unrecognized; indeed, sometimes they were even singled out for abuse from their co-nationals for their selfless actions. Unlikely Heroes traces the evolution of the humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians, politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. Contributors in this edited collection also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with the role of rescuers, at both the university and the secondary level.
The Brave Cyclist
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Author : Amalia Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Nonfiction Picture Books
Release Date : 2020-05-28
The Brave Cyclist written by Amalia Hoffman and has been published by Nonfiction Picture Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with categories.
Once a skinny and weak child, Italian Gino Bartali rose to become a Tour de France champion and one of cycling's greatest stars. But all that seemed unimportant when his country came under the grip of a brutal dictator and entered World War II on the side of Nazi Germany. Bartali might have appeared a mere bystander to the harassment and hatred directed toward Italy's Jewish people, but secretly he accepted a role in a dangerous plan to help them. Putting his own life at risk, Bartali used his speed and endurance on a bike to deliver documents that Jewish people needed to help them escape harm. His inspiring story reveals how one person could make a difference against violence and prejudice during the time of the Holocaust.