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Book Cover for: Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust, Milton Meltzer

Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust

Milton Meltzer

Between the years 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler organized the murder of six million Jews while the world looked on silently. But not all people stood back in fear. In every Nazi-occupied country, at every level of society, there were non-Jews who had the courage to resist. From the king of Denmark, refusing to force Jewish Danes to wear yellow stars, to the Dutch student, registering Jewish babies as Gentiles and hiding children in her home, a small number of people had the strength to reject the inhumanity they were ordered to support.

Here are their stories: thrilling, terrifying, and most of all, inspiring. For in the horror that was the Holocaust, some human decency could still shine through.

Book Details

  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish Date: Sep 30th, 1991
  • Pages: 176
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.03in - 0.54in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9780064461177
  • Recommended age: 08-12
  • Categories: History - HolocaustBiography & Autobiography - HistoricalReligion - Judaism

About the Author

Meltzer, Milton: - Milton Meltzer, a Christopher Award and Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner, is the author of over eighty books in the fields of history, biography, and social reform. His most recent books are The Amazing Potato, a 1993 ALA Notable Children's Book, Gold and Hold Your Horses!. He lives in New York City.

Winner of the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

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