Jagendorf's Foundry: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust 1941-1944 - Hardcover

Siegfried Jagendorf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006016106X ISBN 13: 9780060161064

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1991

Synopsis

A Jewish engineer recounts how he survived deportation to the Ukraine

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In the early 1940s Romania exiled 150,000 Jews to Transnistria, a war-devastated corner of the Nazi-occupied Soviet Ukraine. There Jagendorf, a failed Jewish entrepreneur, convinced the Nazis to let him convert a abandoned spare-parts factory into a Jewish labor colony. Outmaneuvering Romanian officials, he saved some 15,000 Jews from extermination. To many critics the resourceful engineer was a collaborator who usurped power to preserve his own life. This extraordinary document consists of Jagendorf's first-person narrative intertwined with commentary by Hirt-Manheimer, editor-in-chief of the Holocaust Library, who spent two years interviewing survivors and analyzing primary sources. Amplifying Jagendorf's self-portrayal as a stern but sympathetic paragon of virtue, Hirt-Manheimer points out flagrant abuses of power by Jagendorf's ghetto police. Yet the picture that emerges from this riveting, heartrending story is of a genuine hero who helped thousands survive by dint of his courage, wits and luck.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Holocaust literature seems to increase by thousands of volumes each year. However, little has been written on the Romanian Holocaust, which makes this particular memoir valuable. With the aid of a team of other Jews, Jagendorf, an engineer, helped save thousands in a forgotten ironworks foundry. Edited by the editor-in-chief of the Holocaust Library, Jagendorf's memoir (he died some 25 years ago) is both a human story as well as a history of the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev and the peculiar circumstances of the Romanian situation. There is a two-page list of sources for further consideration. See also Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel's Children of the Flames , reviewed in this issue, p. 101.--Ed.
- Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis Univ., Waltham, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 006016106X
• ISBN 13: 9780060161064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209