the launching of the largest secret rescue movement of all time
Aliav, Ruth
1973
Their mission: to organize the escape of thousands of men, women, and children before WWII closed all borders and Europe's Jews faced Hitler's "Final Solution" - annihilation.
Chronicles the events surrounding the Holocaust, discussing how it affected every country in Europe, how it was rooted in events which date back to the Middle Ages, why it was allowed to go on for so long, and other related topics.
The memoir of a Polish-American woman who, with her family in Poland in 1942, at age nine, was forced into hiding in a crawl space under a barn to escape Nazi persecution.