Saving One's Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust Contributor(s): Paldiel, Mordecai (Author) |
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ISBN: 0827612613 ISBN-13: 9780827612617 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 940.531 |
LCCN: 2016039133 |
Physical Information: 1.56" H x 6" W x 9" (2.38 lbs) 636 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. Mordecai Paldiel is a professor of history at Yeshiva University-Stern College and Touro College and is a consultant to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He is the former longtime director of the Righteous among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem and was himself rescued from the Holocaust by a "Righteous Gentile." Paldiel is the author of eight books, including Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers and Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women Who Defied the "Final Solution." |