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