The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
by Martin Gilbert

The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
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Author: Martin Gilbert
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN: 0805062610
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Book Reviews of The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Book Review: A Geographical Cross-Section of Gentiles Who Aided Jews
Summary: 4 Stars

Top Yad Vashem rankings (p. 462): Poland (5,632 rescuers), Holland (4,464 rescuers), France (2,171 rescuers)...as of January 1, 2002. Gilbert also includes detailed maps of the European cities and towns where the rescuers lived. This book is also chock-full of photographs, and has an extensive biography.

Rescuers from the German-occupied nations surveyed include those from France, Germany and Austria, the Scandinavian nations, the Low Countries, and especially Poland. The reader learns about Zegota, the only underground organization of its kind devoted to the aid of Jews. Irena Sendler, who lived to nearly 100 before recently passing away, is also featured.

Unfortunately, Gilbert uncritically repeats Jan T. Gross and his charge that Poles were the unassisted killers of Jedwabne's Jews. Other sources, including strictly Jewish ones (The Warriors: My Life As A Jewish Soviet Partisan (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust) and Deliverance: The Diary of Michael Maik, a True Story) identify the Germans as the main killers of Jedwabne's Jews, along with a few mostly-coerced Polish accomplices.

There is, of course, much, much more to the subject of gentile assistance to Jews than can be covered in this book. Those readers specifically interested in an in-depth and candid study of both Polish rescuers and denouncers of Jews should go to the Peczkis Listmania: Righteous Among Gentiles: Polish Rescuers of Jews...Betrayers Too.

Summary of The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

?As a researcher and collector of historical source material, Mr. Gilbert has no peer among
contemporary historians.? ?The New York Times

According to Jewish tradition, ?Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world.? In The Righteous, distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert explores the courage of those who, throughout Germany and in every occupied country, took incredible risks to help Jews whose fate would have been sealed without them. Indeed, many lost their lives for their efforts.

From Greek-Orthodox Princess Alice of Greece to the Ukrainian Uniate Archbishop of Lvov, from priests and soldiers to employees and neighbors, many risked, and sacrificed, everything to help their fellow man. Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of the non-Jews who have received formal recognition by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.

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