To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue - Couverture souple

Land-Weber, Ellen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252074025 ISBN 13 : 9780252074028

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Holocaust takes on a riveting immediacy in these true stories of the everyday, understated heroism that saved thousands of Jews from annihilation at the hands of the Third Reich. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, To Save a Life pairs the stories of a handful of rescuers with those of people they saved. Ellen Land-Weber creates a moving, multidimensional picture of the evasive strategies and heartstopping close calls that filled the years of the Holocaust for both rescuers and rescued. In paperback for the first time, the rescues narrate their growing awareness of the tightening circle of Nazi terror, their experiences in hiding, often being shunted from one safehouse to another, and their hair's-breadth separation from friends and family who did not escape. Promotional Information: Life-saving acts of heroism by ordinary people in the face of Nazi tyranny.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ellen Land-Weber, a photographer and a professor emerita of art at Humboldt State University, is the author of and photographer for The Passionate Collector.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252074025
• ISBN 13: 9780252074028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 331
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible