righteous gentiles in the holocaust

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righteous gentiles in the holocaust

Beyond courage

the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
2012
Provides detailed accounts of twenty-one acts of defiance committed against Nazis in Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish diplomat and humanitarian
2001
Presents volume eight of an eight-volume series on Holocaust Biographies, and examines the role that Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman, played in rescuing thousands of Jews from Hungary.

Oskar Schindler

righteous gentile
2000
Presents volume three of an eight-volume series on Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Oskar Schindler played and provides information on his youth, his membership in the Nazi Party, and his role in providing jobs for Jews and the ultimate survival of over one thousand Jews he kept from the death camps.

Pastor Andr? Trocm?

spiritual leader of the French village Le Chambon
2001
Provides a brief introduction to the life and work of French spiritual leader Pastor Andr? Trocm?.

Oskar Schindler

2003
A biography of the profit-hungry businessman who became a protector and savior of the Jews during the Nazi holocaust.

A special fate

Chiune Sugihara : hero of the Holocaust
2000
A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.

Voices of the Holocaust

1998
Presents six theme-based chapters of original documents such as speeches, letters, and book excerpts, from 1920 to approximately 1950, which examine the Holocaust.

His name was Raoul Wallenberg

courage, rescue, and mystery during World War II
2012
Chronicles the life of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swede, who at the end of World War II was able to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi concentration camps.

The zookeeper's wife

2007
Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan.

Rescuers defying the Nazis

non-Jewish teens who rescued Jews
1999
Relates the stories of courageous non-Jewish teenagers who rescued Jews from the Nazis.

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