Rescuers

By Gay Block, Malka Drucker,

Book cover of Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

Book description

A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught…

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The authors spent three years interviewing 105 rescuers from ten countries to compile this extraordinary portrait of individual rescuers. This large coffee table edition is beautifully illustrated with historical photographs, and color portraits. Each rescuer explains how he or she came to the decision to shift from being a bystander to being a rescuer. By reading their accounts, we are continuing to hold their actions in the front of our minds. We are witnesses to their heroic deeds. Irene Gut Opdyke is also interviewed.

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