Amazing Story of Alexander Glasberg
Amazing Story of Alexander Glasberg

Author: Nick Lampert

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1839523875

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Who was Alexander Glasberg? A Jewish emigre from the former Russian empire who settled in France in 1932 and became a Catholic priest. A Yiddish-speaking polyglot. A man of astonishing audacity who saved many Jews during the German occupation. After narrowly escaping from the clutches of the Gestapo in Lyon in 1942, he appeared under an assumed name as a parish priest in south-west France, where he joined the local Resistance. After the Liberation he moved to Paris and set up an entirely secular organisation, COS, to help people to find their feet in France after the traumas of the war. It provided a unique combination of services for asylum-seekers, for the elderly and for the disabled. Forty years after the death of the founder in 1981, the COS Alexander Glasberg Foundation is much bigger but remains strikingly faithful to the ideals which inspired its beginnings. Abbe Glasberg was a free spirit who evaded all conventional boxes. A priest outside the Church. An ardent Francophile yet passionate defender of refugees. A Zionist yet strong supporter of the Palestinian people. A sociable yet also secretive figure. This book traces key moments in his remarkable life and sheds light on a mesmerising personality.

Iraq’s Last Jews
Iraq’s Last Jews

Author: T. Morad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230616232

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Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century. This book tells the story of this last generation of Iraqi Jews, who both reminisce about their birth country and describe the persecution that drove them out, the result of Nazi influences, growing Arab nationalism, and anger over the creation of the State of Israel.

Churches and Religion in the Second World War
Churches and Religion in the Second World War

Author: Jan Bank

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 1472504798

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Despite the wealth of historical literature on the Second World War, the subject of religion and churches in occupied Europe has been undervalued – until now. This critical European history is unique in delivering a rich and detailed analysis of churches and religion during the Second World War, looking at the Christian religions of occupied Europe: Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Orthodoxy. The authors engage with key themes such as relations between religious institutions and the occupying forces; religion as a key factor in national identity and resistance; theological answers to the Fascist and National Socialist ideologies, especially in terms of the persecution of the Jews; Christians as bystanders or protectors in the Holocaust; and religious life during the war. Churches and Religion in the Second World War will be of great value to students and scholars of European history, the Second World War and religion and theology.

Saving the Jews
Saving the Jews

Author: Mordecai Paldiel

Publisher: Schreiber Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781887563550

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The author has collected the most amazing stories of people who secretly saved Jewish lives from 1933 to 1945 and arranged them chronologically and geographically to show us that there will always be a few righteous souls who have made a greater difference in favour of human goodness.

Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica
Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica

Author: Klaus Dodds

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1784717681

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The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

Fighters Among the Ruins
Fighters Among the Ruins

Author: Israel Gutman

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Surveys the rise to power of Nazism and Nazi anti-Jewish policy before the war. Describes the youth movements in Poland and their inventiveness at helping thousands of Jews to escape. Those who remained in the German-occupied areas became the vanguard of the underground resistance. Discusses resistance in the ghettos and the uprisings in Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Describes the flight to the forests after the German occupation of Poland and the Baltic states and the guerrilla warfare of partisan groups in various countries, and gives an account of the role of Jews in the Allied armies.