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Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:21 PM Jan 29

Just published, 2025: Saints & Liars: The Stories of Americans Who Saved Endangered People from the Nazis - Debrah Dwor



Deborah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center – City University of New York.

Recipient of the Annetje Fels-Kupferschmidt Award (2022) bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, and the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020), Debórah Dwork has been, inter alia, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She sits on many advisory boards and serves as Scholar Advisor to The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, Department of Global Communications, United Nations. Above all, Professor Dwork is a teacher and mentor, committed to training the next generation of Holocaust scholars.
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Saints & Liars: The Stories of Americans Who Saved Endangered People from the Nazis - Debórah Dwork

A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II.

Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews and dissidents after the 1939 invasion by Germany.

They were not the only ones. Renowned historian Debórah Dwork follows the story of rescue workers in five major cities as the refugee crisis expanded to Vilna, Shanghai, Marseille, and Lisbon. Followed by Nazi agents, spiriting people across borders, they learned secrecy.

https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Liars-Story-Americans-Refugees/dp/1324020342
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I managed to score a copy to read this week. This really is hot off the presses.
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This is heavyweight content!
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