The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823224414 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
claire Sheehan said I loved and hated it at the same time. I loved and hated it at the same time. I sent it to a Jewish friend who I think will feel as I did about it. It makes you realize there are good people everywhere who have the morals, courage and guts to stand up and do the right thing as best as they can.. A masterpiece of writing and moral significance. This well-written, gripping story about Major Plagge should be read by everyone, and studied in high schools and colleges. Surely one of the lessons of the horrible atrocities committed in so many places during the twentieth century is that the progress of the human race may depend more on learning moral fortitude than scientific or academic knowlege. Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot personally killed or tortured relatively few people. However, they accomplished unfathomable evil because so many "ordinary" peo. a real unknown hero Dr. Good has written a wonderfull history that could be ficton, BUT IS NOT. The book casts a light on true heroism.
He kept up the guise that he needed these skilled Jewish workers, although many of them were unskilled. This is an exceptional story of one man's bravery and compassion in a world where six million Jews were murdered. His primary method of resistance against the genocide was to give work permits to Jews, allowing them to save themselves and their families from the aktions that swept the Vilna ghettos. George CohenCopyright © American Library Association. As the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazis increased in intensity through the 1930s, Plag
Plagge's story was tracked by media around the world and can also be xplored at searchformajorplagge. Michael Good has appeared on C-SPAN, as a speaker in Israel and Germany, and in schools,libraries, churches, and synagogues across the United States. Good, a physician, continues to fol
Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After five years of research-interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the amazing tale of one man's remarkable courage. When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero-and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story.Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilna ghetto -including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth.. And in April 2005 Karl Plagge joined Oskar Schindler and 380 other Germans as a Righ