{"product_id":"saving-ones-own-9780827612617","title":"Saving Ones Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paldiel's book includes remarkable stories of remarkable people.\"—Tammy Mark, \u003ci\u003eJewish Link of New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first of its kind . . . \u003ci\u003eSaving One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e is very important because it illustrates the resilience of people in Nazi-occupied Europe and dispels the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust. Thoroughly researched, exciting, and engaging.”—Samuel P. Oliner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Altruistic Personality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Good and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Mordecai Paldiel has encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. . . . Country by country, virtually institution by institution, he looks at ways in which Jews rescued Jews. Strongly recommended.”—Michael Berenbaum, scholar, author, filmmaker, and former project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Photographs\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Germany and Austria: Outwitting the Nazis in Their Home Base\u003cbr\u003e 2. Poland: Rescue in the Deadliest Place in Europe\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lithuania and Belarus: Getting Out in Time, Refuge in Forest Lairs\u003cbr\u003e 4. Slovakia: Negotiating to Stop Deportations\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hungary: Zionist Diaspora Youth at Its Best, Some Debatable Rescue Undertakings\u003cbr\u003e 6. Croatia and Italy: Children on the Run\u003cbr\u003e 7. France: The Many Who Helped Save Most of the Country’s Jews\u003cbr\u003e 8. Belgium: Organized Self-Help, Stopping a Deportation Train\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Netherlands: Pulling the Wool over the SS’s Eyes, Hiding and a Run across Borders\u003cbr\u003e 10. Toward Palestine, the Land of Israel: Boat People on the Danube with the Connivance of the Nazis\u003cbr\u003e 11. Switzerland: Outstretched Hands from Nearby\u003cbr\u003e 12. Concentration Camps: Flight and Rescue from Hell on Earth and Challenging Himmler\u003cbr\u003e 13. England: A Rabbi and the Religious Obligation to Serve\u003cbr\u003e 14. United States: Organizational Assistance amid Conflicting Agendas\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406201987415,"sku":"9780827612617","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780827612617.jpg?v=1730494913","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saving-ones-own-9780827612617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}