Four Front War: from the Holocaust to the Promised Land

Endpaper maps. viii+376p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. appendix. index.It was an underground railroad. It foiled the Nazis; it foiled the British. It saved 40,000 Jews from mass murder. The complete story of the great rescue operation. William Perl stands among a few key figures before the war who organized and directed The Action. Using the texts of secret official memoranda, most never before published, his personal diary of the period, as well as notes and dozens of taped interviews, he presents a chronicle of this unknown aspect of the war. Here is Perl's irrefutable case against the British government, next to the Nazis themselves probably the most deadly foes of the persecuted Jews. WILLIAM R. PERL lived most of his pre~Hitler years in Vienna. After Hitler's ascent to power, Perl organized the dramatic escape to Palestine of thousands of Jews, an action about which Prime Minister Menachem Begin has said, "Your deeds . will be remembered forever by the Jewish people, indeed, by all men of good will." At the end of World War II, Perl became Special Assistant to the Prosecution at the War Crimes Trials in Dachau.…