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The righteous of Switzerland : heroes of the Holocaust / by Meir Wagner ; edited by Andreas C. Fischer, Graham Buik.
LIBRA D804.65 W34 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Meir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Switzerland--Biography.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Switzerland.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xli, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : KTAV Pub., [2001]
- Contents:
- Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust xvii
- List of the "Righteous Among the Nations" of Swiss Nationality xl
- Defenders of the Oppressed and Accomplices in Uniform / Marcel Pasche 1
- The Freedom-Giving Lady of Frankfurt Frieda Impekoven 17
- "Whoever Saves One Soul..." / Arthur Schneeberger, Anne Schneeberger 20
- Unrelenting Struggle to Rescue the Innocent / Ernest Prodolliet 23
- The Mother of the Refugees / Gertrud Kurz 30
- The Police Captain with a Conscience / Paul Gruninger 32
- Standing Up to the Vichy Regime / Maurice Dubois, Eleonore Dubois 57
- The Loving Guardian of La Hille Castle / Rosli Naef 67
- Masterminding the Escape / Renee Farny 77
- A Helping Hand to Freedom / Gret Tobler 85
- The Man Who was More Than a Teacher / Sebastian Steiger 87
- Over the Border Against the Law / Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet 100
- A Tireless Team on the Freedom Trail / Fred Reymond, Lilette Reymond 109
- The Third Combatant / Marcel Junod 114
- Rallying a Town to Stand Up to the Oppressor / August Bohny 119
- The Ingenious "Milk Churn" Rescue Operation / Friedel Bohny-Reiter 125
- The Quick-thinking Nun of Sacre-Coeur Convent / Jeanne Berchmans (Marie Meienhofer) 130
- Persona Non Grata / Rene Burkhardt 136
- The Protestant Pastor who Protected the "Property of God" / Hans Schaffert 137
- "Children, Thank the Almighty, You Are Saved!" / Albert Gross 141
- Tata, the Toddlers' Guardian Angel / Martha Schmidt 146
- The Pastor and His Wife Who Never Said No to Refugees / Roland de Pury, Jacqueline de Pury 150
- Navigating in Treacherous Waters / Karl Kolb, Vladimir von Steiger 153
- The Bible-Coded Letters That Slipped Past the Censors / Daniel Curtet 156
- "An Angel With a Flaming Sword" / Paul Calame-Rosset, May Calame-Rosset 159
- The Social Worker
- and Passionate Secret Resistance Fighter / Rene Nodot 163
- The Courageous Consul in Besieged Budapest / Carl Lutz, Gertrude Lutz, Peter Zurcher 167
- The Visionary Emissary of Hope / Jean de Bavier 193
- The Red Cross Official Who Knew No Fear / Friedrich Born 195
- The Courageous Nun of the Sacred Heart Convent / Hildegard Gutzwiller 205
- The Good Samaritan's Summerhouse Refuge / William Francken, Laure Francken 210
- In the Devil's Lair / Jean-Edouard Friedrich, Roland Marti, Pierre Descoeudres, Robert Schirmer 217
- Triumphs and Tragedies in the Life of a Schlepper / Emile Barras 223
- Six Weeks in Jail, That Others Could Live Free / Ernest Wittwer 231
- Not Taking "No" for an Answer / Georges Dunand 234
- Volunteering for Theresienstadt / Paul Dunant 238
- The Legendary Liberator of Mauthausen / Louis Haefliger 240
- The Secretary's Dual Role / Harald Feller 243
- The Painstaking Priest Who Made Escape-Planning an Art / Charles-Jean Bovet 256
- The Heroes of "No-Man's-Land" / Arthur Lavergnat, Jeanne Lavergnat 258.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-267).
- ISBN:
- 0881256986
- OCLC:
- 45002174
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