The Righteous - Softcover

Gilbert, Dr Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552777188 ISBN 13: 9780552777186

Verlag: Black Swan, 2011

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Críticas:

"'A testimony to the power of goodness in the face of evil.  Gilbert eschews re-telling the more famous tales of Oskar Schindler or Raoul Wallenberg to concentrate on the forgotten helpers.'" (Glasgow Herald)

"'Exhaustively researched, with much first-han reportage form those rescued, The Righteous manages the feat of being both academically rigorous and highly readable.'" (Eastern Daily Press)

"'Two implicit demands are made of us by Gilbert's powerful book.  They are, most obviously: where would you and I have stood?  And the question which also provides the probable answer: what if the 19,000 [Righteous] had been 19 million?'" (The Scotsman)

"'Martin Gilbert brings together some remarkable stories of courage and ingenuity.'" (Matthew Reisz Independent)

"'This is the inspiring true story of [the Righeous'] courage, decency and merit.'" (Sunday Express)

Reseña del editor:

Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Mies Giep: these are names that most of us recognize. What is less well known is the story of the thousands of other ordinary non-Jews all over occupied Europe who similarly risked their own lives and those of their famillies, and sometimes their whole community, to save Jews from the Nazis. Some of these were civil servants, officials, and diplomats - but many others were ordinary people who had the courage to turn against the general tide of passive collaboration in order to do what seemed right. Martin Gilbert has been collecting their stories for over twenty years, in every occupied country from Norway to Greece, from the Atlantic to the Baltic, and inside the heart of the Third Reich itself.

Among those 'righteous gentiles' saving Jewish lives were many Muslims in Bosnia and Albania; the Greek-Orthodox Princess Alice of Greece, Prince Philip's mother, who hid Jews in her home in Athens; the Archbishop of Lvov and his sister, the Mother-Superior of a Ukrainian order, saved hundreds of Jews in churches and monasteries. The whole of the Danish nation, from the King down, were involved in helping all Danish Jews escape. Other heroes include some most unlikely of people, from a Japanese diplomat to the British prisoner of war, bizarrely called Sergeant Coward, who saved dozens of Jews inside the Auschwitz deathcamp itself. THE RIGHTEOUS is a record and special tribute to this more upbeat side to the Holocaust: the thousands of heroic individuals who bravely stood up against the most barbaric genocide in history.

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• Verlag: Black Swan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0552777188
• ISBN 13: 9780552777186
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324