Heroes of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith

Heroes of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith

Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish friends, or complete strangers. And yet many of their stories have been forgotten. Frank Foley, a British spy whose cover was working at the British embassy in Berlin, took huge risks issuing forged visas to enable around 10,000 Jews to escape Germany before the outbreak of war. Jane Haining refused to come back to Scotland and leave the Jewish orphans in her care in Hungary. When they were sent to Auschwitz she was transported with them. Louise and Ida Cook were sisters from suburban London. They used their love of opera as a cover to take daring trips to help Jews escape Nazi Germany and Austria right up until the outbreak of war. Ten British POWs hid and cared for young Hannah Sarah Rigler when she escaped from a death march, having been forced to leave her mother behind. All those whose stories are collected here were ordinary people, acting on no one's authority but their own, who found they could not stand idly by in the face of such great evil. Written by acclaimed Holocaust historian Lyn Smith, Heroes of the Holocaust is a moving testament to the bravery of those whose inspiring actions stand out in stark relief at a time of such horror.

There is courage, compassion and often astonishing ingenuity in the stories of these selfless individuals * Express *
Moving and inspiring -- Denis Avey * author of The Man who Broke into Auschwitz *
Highly recommended * Sunday Times *

Lyn Smith lectures in International Relations and Human Rights at the Webster University (USA) in London. Over the past thirty years she has worked continuously as a freelance interviewer for the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Sound Archive, and was specially commissioned for the IWM Holocaust Exhibition established in the late 1990s. She is the author of the bestselling Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust.

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ISBN 13	9780091940683
ISBN 10	0091940680
Title	Heroes of the Holocaust
Author	Lyn Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	2013-01-17
Number of pages	288
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