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The Rabbi Saved by Hitler 's Soldiers - Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue (Paperback) Loot Price: R536
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The Rabbi Saved by Hitler 's Soldiers - Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue (Paperback): Bryan Mark...

The Rabbi Saved by Hitler 's Soldiers - Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue (Paperback)

Bryan Mark Rigg; Foreword by Michael Berenbaum; Afterword by Paula Hyman

Series: Modern War Studies

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Were this story a novel, it would have the character of an implausible fable, but as often occurred in the Holocaust, reality exceeds the imagination."- Michael Berenbaum, from the Foreword When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them. When word of his plight went out, a group of American Jews initiated what would ultimately become one of the strangest-and most miraculous-rescues of World War II. And this is the incredible but true story that Bryan Mark Rigg tells in The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers. Amid the chaos and hell of the emerging Holocaust, a small group of German soldiers shepherded Rebbe Schneersohn and his Hasidic followers out of Poland. In the course of the daring escape-traveling by train to Berlin, rerouted to Latvia and Sweden, and carried by ship througH U-boat-infested waters to America-the Rebbe would learn a shocking truth. The leader of the rescue operation, the decorated Wehrmacht soldier Ernst Bloch, was himself half-Jewish, and a victim of the rising tide of German anti-Semitism. Perhaps even more remarkable were the central roles of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Nazi military intelligence service, and of Helmuth Wohlthat, chief administrator of Goering's Four Year Plan. Pursuing every lead, amassing critical evidence, pulling together all the pieces of what could well be a political thriller, Rigg reconstructs the Rebbe's improbable escape, and tells a harrowing story about identity and moral responsibility. His book is the definitive account of an extraordinary episode in the history of World War II.

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Imprint: University Press of Kansas
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modern War Studies
Release date: September 2016
Authors: Bryan Mark Rigg (Teacher of History, American Military University and Southern Methodist University)
Foreword by: Michael Berenbaum
Afterword by: Paula Hyman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-2262-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
LSN: 0-7006-2262-4
Barcode: 9780700622627

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