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| Genre/Form: | Interviews Personal narratives |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ellen Land-Weber |
| ISBN: | 0252025156 9780252025150 |
| OCLC Number: | 42690021 |
| Description: | ix, 331 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Holland. Like violets in the woods. Tina Strobos ; Bram Pais ; Erika van Hestern. You have it in you. Bert Bochove ; Henny Juliard ; Yettie Mendels. A child just like you. Mirjam Pinkhof ; Sophie Yaari ; Joseph Heinrich -- Czechoslovakia. I saw something terrible. Anna and Jaruslav Chlup ; Herman Feder. Another side of the story. Barbara Szymanska Makuch ; Halina Szymanska Ogrodzinska ; Dr. Olga Lilien ; Rachel Litowitz. The important thing was to survive. John Damski ; Christine Damski. |
| Responsibility: | Ellen Land-Weber. |
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"A book that anyone interested in the history of World War II should know about. But it is more about the human capacity for selfless action and about memory than about history in any narrow sense. It should be read by a far wider audience, by anyone willing to entertain the possibility of hope." -- Alissa Leigh, Houston Chronicle "Extraordinarily moving. The spareness of the narratives makes the stories more believable." -- Multicultural Review ADVANCE PRAISE "With a photographer's eye for the telling detail, Ellen Land-Weber has gathered remarkably heartfelt and vivid accounts of human bravery and compassion. By recording how some of us behave in extremis, To Save a Life can be measured alongside the great documentary projects of Lewis Hine, Walker Evans and James Agee, and Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor." -- Andy Grundberg, author of Crisis of the Real "If we want to cultivate persons of a higher and better moral caliber, then the examples of persons in this book should serve as excellent role models. Hopefully, Ellen Land-Weber's book will serve this good purpose." -- Mordecai Paldiel, director, Department for the Righteous, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Read more...
