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

Milton Meltzer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0780703022 ISBN 13: 9780780703025

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1991

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Milton Meltzer's many books include Voices from the Civil War, a 1989 School Library Journal Best Book; Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers; and The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750–1800, both ALA Best Books for Young Adults and School Library Journal Best Books. Mr. Meltzer lives in New York, NY.

From Publishers Weekly:

This successor to Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust presents a little-known side of history. PW said, "The most remarkable aspect of this book, aside from the array of astonishing facts, is Meltzer's clear sense of perspective. This is a calm book (about extreme events) that lifts the spirit." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0780703022
• ISBN 13: 9780780703025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168