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Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318
EAN: 9780841913233
ISBN: 0841913234
Label: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Manufacturer: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 255
Publication Date: 1992-03
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Studio: Holmes & Meier Publishers
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Rating: - True stories of moral courage and goodness
On the front cover of "Rescuers" are 12 photographs of some very nice looking people. They are pictures of people that you might meet every day; of friends and family, or someone that you might pass by on the street. They are the faces of very ordinary people, but they are also much more than that. They are the faces of people that risked their lives to save the lives of others during the Holocaust. They are the faces of the rescuers. There are many more photographs inside the book, ... Read More
Rating: - A beautiful photo-interview essay on altruism...
This book is wonderfully formatted, arranged by geographic area of Europe. Each interview starts with black and white photos a person who helped Jews and other persecuted people during WWII. A personal narrative of that time in their lives follows, and each interview closes with a color photo of that person as they were in 1992 when the interviews were done. A complicated and moving picture of altruism emerges, and one gets a glimpse of how individuals chose to protect others at the risk of threat ... Read More
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