Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper Behind Nazi Lines

by Yoel Palgi and Phyllis Palgi

In the spring of 1944, a group of thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out for Budapest. Tragically, they were betrayed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531497
• ISBN13: 9780813531496
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A hero in dark dark times

I believe I first read a chapter of this work in a book on Hannah Senesh. I was deeply impressed by the dedication, heroism and decency displayed by Palgi. In very very lonely times and under the most difficult circumstances there were those people who courageously fought for a better world for the Jewish people and for all mankind. Palgi was one of them.