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Wilfrid Israel
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Author : Naomi Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Wilfrid Israel written by Naomi Shepherd and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Wilfrid Israel was a most unlikely hero. Heir to a Jewish business dynasty in Berlin, he was a contemporary of Einstein and Spender in the cosmopolitan circles of Weimar Berlin, and emerged from his world of privilege to become German Jewry's chief (and often anonymous) emissary to the outside world and one of the great unsung heroes of the Holocaust. In the dark days of the 1930s, the ever tightening persecution of German Jews made the diffident Wilfrid Israel assume a major role in their escape. Using his British passport and high connections, he lobbied British diplomats and politicians with plans for Jewish support and rescue. At home he faced down stormtroopers and the Gestapo, enabled the emigration of the Jewish employees of his firm, and ransomed thousands of Jewish and anti-Nazi prisoners from the concentration camps. When the Nazis finally requisitioned the Israel firm, and the Jewish leadership disintegrated, he ran the Jewish emigration office which enabled thousands to find refuge abroad, partly by his connection with the head of British intelligence in Berlin. After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938, through the Council for German Jewry in London, and with the help of his Quaker friends and German Jewish women's organisations, he set in motion the famous Kindertransport. This was the admission to Britain without formalities of nearly ten thousand unaccompanied Jewish children. Leaving Germany days before the outbreak of the war, he lobbied on behalf of German Jews interned as enemy aliens. In 1942 he was recruited by the British Foreign Office to put his extensive knowledge of German politics and economics at the disposal of the government – also his expertise in rescue to its Refugee Department. Wilfrid Israel was one of the first to warn of the Nazis' plans to exterminate the Jews of Europe and the dimensions of the Holocaust. His final mission, to distribute certificates of admission to Palestine among the Jews of Spain and Portugal, ended when the plane in which he was returning to England was shot down by the Luftwaffe. This biography, first published in 1984 and now revised with a new foreword, restores Wilfrid Israel to his rightful place in the history of the Holocaust. It also brings into new focus the disturbing indifference of Allied leaders to the plight of the Jews, early arguments over the emerging Palestinian homeland, and questions still unresolved today about the politics of rescue and the practicality of humanist ideals.
A Refuge From Darkness
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Author : Naomi Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1984
A Refuge From Darkness written by Naomi Shepherd and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book recounts the efforts of Wilfrid Israel, a British-born Jew, who played an important role in the Kindertransport and the rescue of Jews from Berlin during the Holocaust. He was killed when his plane was shot down by the Nazis.
Wilfrid Israel
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Author : Martin Buber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Wilfrid Israel written by Martin Buber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Germany categories.
Wilfrid Israel Sonderausgabe
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Author : Naomi Shepherd
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Wilfrid Israel Sonderausgabe written by Naomi Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Jewish refugees categories.
Wilfrid Israel was born in 1899 in London to a wealthy Jewish family, having both English and German roots. The family lived permanently in Berlin, where they owned the large department store N. Israel. Israel became anxious regarding the fate of German Jews in the early 1930s. In 1932 he began to collaborate with Recha Freier's Youth Aliyah in helping Jewish young people emigrate to Eretz Israel. Describes the wanton terror in 1933, when the Nazis attempted to Aryanize Israel's business and he was arrested several times. In 1933-39 he made several proposals for the mass emigration of Jews from Germany to Britain, the USA, and elsewhere; he was an initiator of the Kindertransports to England. During the war, when the British began to intern refugees from Germany, Israel tried to protect the interned refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His stance toward Zionism was ambivalent; nevertheless, in January 1943 he was offered and accepted a position at the Jewish Agency branch in Lisbon, in charge of Jewish refugees living in Spain and Portugal. On 1 June 1943, when he was on a flight from Lisbon to London, his plane was shot down by the Germans.
Building Jewish Roots
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Author : Faydra Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2014-06-22
Building Jewish Roots written by Faydra Shapiro and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-22 with History categories.
Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are encouraged for their presumed value in combating assimilation and a loss of Jewish culture. Faydra Shapiro suggests that their real success may lie elsewhere.
Flight 777
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Author : Ian Colvin
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2013-02-19
Flight 777 written by Ian Colvin and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with History categories.
On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort. Also on board was Howards tax adviser, Alfred Chenhalls, who smoked cigars and looked remarkably like Winston Churchill. Did the Germans believe that Churchill was on board Flight 777? Other aircraft flying that route went unmolested by the Luftwaffe in spite of the German air presence over the Bay of Biscay. These flights were operated by Dutch crews flying aircraft of KLM, which were on charter to BOAC, and it was an experience Dutch crew that was lost that day. Ian Colvin carried out an exhaustive investigation into the incident, including interviewing former Luftwaffe personnel and this book, first published in 1957, is the result of his endeavors.
Saving One S Own
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Author : Mordecai Paldiel
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Saving One S Own written by Mordecai Paldiel 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 2017-04-01 with History categories.
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter.” Paldiel documents how brave Jewish men and women saved thousands of their fellow Jews through efforts unprecedented in Jewish history. Encyclopedic in scope and organized by country, Saving One’s Own tells the stories of hundreds of Jewish activists who created rescue networks, escape routes, safe havens, and partisan fighting groups to save beleaguered Jewish men, women, and children from the Nazis. The rescuers’ dramatic stories are often shared in their own words, and Paldiel provides extensive historical background and documentation. The untold story of these Jewish heroes, who displayed inventiveness and courage in outwitting the enemy—and in saving literally thousands of Jews—is finally revealed.
The Other Schindlers
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Author : Agnes Grunwald-Spier
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-12-26
The Other Schindlers written by Agnes Grunwald-Spier and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the other side, and many are honoured by Yad Vashem as 'Righteous Among the Nations' for their actions. As a baby, Agnes Grunwald-Spier was herself saved from the horrors of Auschwitz by an unknown official, and is now a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. She has collected together the stories of thirty individuals who rescued Jews, and these provide a new insight into why these people were prepared to risk so much for their fellow men and women. With a foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert, one of the leading experts on the subject, this is an ultimately uplifting account of how some good deeds really do shine in a weary world.
German Resistance Against Hitler
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Author : Klemens Von Klemperer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994
German Resistance Against Hitler written by Klemens Von Klemperer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Klemens von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the beliefs and activities of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany, and traces their many efforts to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside the Third Reich. -;Klemens von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the beliefs and activities of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany, and traces their many efforts to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside the Third Reich. Measured by conventional standards of diplomacy, the foreign ventures of the German Resistance ended in failure. The Allied agencies, notably the British Foreign Office and the US State Department, were ill prepared to deal with the unorthodox approaches of the Widerstand. Ultimately, the Allies' policy of absolute silence', the Grand Alliance with the Soviet Union, and the demand for unconditional surrender' pushed the war to its final denouement, disregarding the German. Resistance. -;a massive work by a distinguished historian - New Statesman and Society;a detailed, sympathetic, and meticulously documented chronicle of German resistance diplomacy - Journal of Military History;a superbly researched study - Financial Times
Advocate For The Doomed
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Author : James G. McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-25
Advocate For The Doomed written by James G. McDonald and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886–1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany, in 1933 he became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. In late 1935 he resigned in protest at the lack of support for his work. This is the eagerly awaited first of a projected three-volume work that will significantly revise the ways that scholars and the world view the antecedents of the Holocaust, the Shoah itself, and its aftermath.