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About the Author

Mordecai Paldiel holds a doctorate from Temple University and has served for eighteen years as Director of the Department of the Righteous among the Nations at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust martyrs and heroes memorial in Jerusalem. This is his third book on the subject. The author and his family were mostrar mais rescued during the Holocaust by a French Catholic priest, who helped them escape from Southern France into Switzerland. mostrar menos

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Paldiel, Mordecai
Outros nomes
PALDIEL, Mordecai
WAJSFELD, Markus
Sexo
male
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150 astonishing tales of incredible courage and humanity during a time of violence, cowardice and hate. The stories, which are a few pages long each, cover countries from all over the world and provide a good representation of what sort of people the Righteous Gentiles were and how they saved Jews. The author was himself rescued by a Righteous Gentile with his family when he was a child, and is story is included in this volume. There are pictures too. Although the book is 600 pages long, in my opinion it's well worth the time it takes to read it.

Unfortunately I had to knock off a star because the book seriously needed a good copyeditor. I noticed a lot of errors, mainly with punctuation and syntax.
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meggyweg | Apr 3, 2011 |

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Avner Shalev Preface
Elie Wiesel Foreword
Israel Gutman Introduction

Estatísticas

Obras
8
Membros
203
Popularidade
#108,639
Avaliação
½ 4.7
Resenhas
1
ISBNs
10
Favorito
2

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