Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers: Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and his astonishing rescue
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers: Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and his astonishing rescue
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318092/0799
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]09409
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University Press of Kansas
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2016
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]510p
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Modern war studies
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[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them. When word of his plight went out, a group of American Jews initiated what would ultimately become one of the strangestand most miraculousrescues of World War II.