To Save a Life: STORIES OF HOLOCAUST RESCUE - Softcover

Land-Weber, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252074025 ISBN 13: 9780252074028

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2006

Synopsis

Life-saving acts of heroism by ordinary people in the face of Nazi tyranny

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Review:

"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

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0252074025
• ISBN 13: 9780252074028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344