Research Catalog

Title

Stories of deliverance : speaking with men and women who rescued Jews from the Holocaust / Marek Halter ; translated by Michael Bernard.

Author

Halter, Marek.

Publication

Chicago : Open Court, c1998.

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Details

Description

xvi, 304 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• From his research with Holocaust survivors, Halter developed a list of "the Just"--Those who, according to Jewish tradition, must exist in each generation in order to save the world from destruction. Halter's encounters with these heroes and with those they saved are described in a series of little stories, interspersed with his own memories and observations. These "just" men and women range from obscure peasants to such notables as former West German chancellor Willy Brandt, the post-Communist leader of Lithuania, and the present Pope. The material of this book also forms the subject of a film directed by Halter, Tzedek: The Righteous.
• When Marek Halter was five years old, he and his family fled from the Warsaw Ghetto with the help of two Polish Catholics. Fifty-three years later, now a distinguished French writer and social commentator, Halter returned to Warsaw, and from there went on a quest across Europe, seeking out and interviewing gentiles who had risked their own lives to save the lives of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Uniform Title

Force du bien. English

Alternative Title

Force du bien.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Interviews
• World War, 1939-1945 > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Poland 1994 -- The Warsaw Ghetto -- Save the little children -- Paris to Warsaw -- My own escape, Treblinka -- Sister Ludovica -- Memories of Evil to find Good -- From Ghetto to cupboard -- Three types -- Strange odors in the barn -- You will choose life -- Germany, the culture -- The Pastor's daughter -- The baker's wife -- Protestant Germany -- The Mischling -- Berlin, a furniture shop -- Karpathian Oil -- Schlinder's List -- Tunisia -- Frankfurt -- The Chief of Police -- Amsterdam -- Mother and sons -- Reflections -- Henriette and Annie -- The Jew from Shanghai -- The Japanese form Jerusalem -- The President of Lithuania -- The Danish Nation -- The Sundoe family -- Rabbi ben Melchior -- Boats to Sweden -- Generous? or Just? -- Ships of ill fortune -- New York, New York -- Franco-Swiss border -- Education and Switzerland -- History repeats itself? (Rwanda) -- The Curate's network -- Bosnia -- Istanbul -- The Turkish Consul in France -- Train ride to Nimes -- Cardinal Lustiger explains -- Occupied Paris -- Police station of the Just -- Good neighbors -- The Auvergne -- Doctor's cure -- Pastor Trocme's Plateau -- The Minister's reception -- Culpability -- John Paul II, the Pope -- Postcard from the past -- Passive complicity -- Eichmann thwarted -- Castles in Belgium -- To save a number -- The belt is buckled.

ISBN

0812693647 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97027114^

OCLC

37239026

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library