We wonder what we would have done or could have done. Here is what we each must do in the face of life.
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After watching the procession for Oskar Schindler's funeral, Gilbert is inspired to do more research on those who risked their lives, called the Righteous, to save to aid Jews in WWII. Extensive research in archives and interviews lead to short sketches of courage and rescue. Gilbert divides the book up by geography which gives the book some order. Many of the stories of courage are very short and thus the number of them...
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I can't say this is a 'Happy' book. The period in which it is set is too terrible and many of the misdeeds described are too terrible to speak of. But the Joy in this work, the proverbial Silver Lining is there were good people during this period. Many of whom happily risked their lives for strangers. Opening thier pockests and their homes to the hunted with no expectation of rewards of any kind. Some of these heroes were...
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One element of Martin Gilbert's writing has been the telling of individual stories which normally would have not had a part in most works of history. He has written of the Shoah( Holocaust) in a way which gives the name and story of many ' ordinary' individuals a place they would not ordinarily have. His collecting the accounts of righteous Gentiles is the same kind of holy work. There is another important point about the...
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There are no words to do justice to this book or the people whose stories are featured in it. It should be required reading for all those who insist this horror didn't happen.
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