The forgers : the forgotten story of the Holocaust's most audacious rescue operation
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.531835/MOORHOUSE,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.531835/MOORHOUSE,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781541619852, 1541619854 :, 1541619854, 9781541619852
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Foreword -- Prologue: "He who saves one life..." --Empty sympathies -- The blood-soaked earth -- "In a short time, it will be too late" -- A crime without a name -- "They are dying. That's all." -- Asking after Aunt Darka -- No time to lose -- Death casts its shadow -- "My God, why have you forsaken me?" -- Epilogue

"In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony with new research and revelations about the Lados Group, Moorhouse unspools the lives, work, and valor of Aleksander Lados, Stefan Ryniewicz, Konstanty Rokicki, Juliusz Kuhl, Chaim Eiss, Abraham Silberschein, six members of the Polish government-in-exile who seized an opportunity to do good in the face of a world at war"--

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