Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers: Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and his astonishing rescue
TitelThe Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers: Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and his astonishing rescue
Författare
Call number940.5318092/0799
Objektnummer09409
PubliceringsortUnited States
UtgivareUniversity Press of Kansas
Publikationsår
2016
Paginering510p
MaterialBook
SerieModern war studies
Notes(electronic device)
Beskrivning
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.