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Saving the Persecuted

Explores aspects of World War II, and introduces people like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and Hannah Senesh who gave aid to Jews.

Dust of life

1978
The author recounts her experiences as a nurse for the poor, orphaned children of Saigon during and after the Vietnam war and describes the life of the people of Saigon after the Communist takeover.

Righteous gentile

the story of Raoul Wallenberg, missing hero of the Holocaust
1981

Lost hero

Raoul Wallenberg's dramatic quest to save the Jews of Hungary
2001
Tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who was personally responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews in the waning days of World War II, and who was arrested by the Soviet Government on unknown charges and imprisoned, never to be heard from again.

Raoul Wallenberg

one man against Nazi terror
1992

Haven

the unknown story of 1,000 World War II refugees
1983
The story of the 1,000 World War II refugees that FDR suspended the quotos to rescue out of the thirteen million Holocaust victims.

Raoul Wallenberg

missing diplomat
1992
A biography of the Swedish diplomat who helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis before mysteriously disappearing when the Russians occupied Budapest.

Escape from the Third Reich

the harrowing true story of the largest rescue effort inside Nazi Germany/
2009
The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the concentration camps from March to April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during the Second World War.

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