The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

by Gilbert, Martin

12. SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY

  13. FROM THE BALTIC SEA TO THE BLACK SEA

  14. ITALY

  15. THE BALKANS

  16. NORWAY AND DENMARK

  17. BUDAPEST

  18. THE RIGHTEOUS

  Bibliography

  Books Specifically about Non-Jews Who Helped Jews During the Second World War

  Per Anger, With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary. New York: Holocaust Library, 1981.

  Per Anger, ‘Introduction’, in Raoul Wallenberg, Letters and Dispatches, 1924–1944. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995.

  Michael Bar-Zohar, Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews. Holbrook, Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation, 1999.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewinowna, Ten jest z Ojczyzny mojej: Polacy z pomoca Zydom, 1939–1945 (‘He is my fellow countryman: Poles giving assistance to Jews, 1939–1945’). Cracow: Wydnawnictwo Znak, 1966. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewin (editors), Righteous Among Nations: How Poles Helped the Jews, 1939–1945. London: Earlscourt Publications, 1969.

  Arieh L. Bauminger, The Righteous. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority 1969. Subsequent editions 1971 and 1983 as Roll of Honour.

  Arieh Ben-Tov (compiler), Friedrich Born, a Righteous Among the Nations. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1988.

  Gay Block and Malka Drucker, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1922.

  John Castle, The Password Is Courage. London: Chiswick Press, 1954.

  Dan Danieli, Captain Ocskay, a Righteous Man. New York: privately printed. First edition, May 1966; second (enlarged) edition, May 1998.

  Mikhail Erenburg and Viktorija Sakaite (editors), Hands Bringing Life and Bread. Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, two volumes, 1997 and 1999.

  Eva Fogelman, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

  Saul Friedlander, Counterfeit Nazi: The Ambiguity of Good. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. (On Kurt Gerstein.)

  Philip Friedman, Their Brothers’ Keeper: The Christian Heroes and Heroines Who Helped the Oppressed Escape the Nazi Terror. New York: Crown, 1957; Holocaust Library, 1978.

  Leo Goldberger (editor), The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage under Stress. New York: New York University Press, 1987.

  David Gushee, The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

  Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

  Wilfred Harrison, Rescuers Speaking. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.

  Peter Hellman, Avenue of the Righteous. New York: Athenaeum, 1981.

  Douglas K. Huneke, The Moses of Rovno: The Stirring Story of Fritz Graebe, a German Christian Who Risked His Life to Lead Hundreds of Jews to Safety During the Holocaust. Tiburon, California: Compassion House, 1985.

  Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, He Who Saves One Life: The Complete, Documented Story of the Poles Who Struggled to Save Jews During World War Two. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971.

  Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.

  Ewa Kurek, Your Life Is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, 1939–1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

  Ellen Land-Weber, To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

  H. D. Leuner, When Compassion Was a Crime: Germany’s Silent Heroes. London: Oswald Wolff, 1966.

  Andy Marino, A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999.

  Robert Marshall, In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust. London: Collins, 1990.

  Reverend David McDougall, Jane Haining, 1897–1944. Edinburgh: Church of Scotland World Mission, 1949 (updated by Ian Alexander, 1999).

  Milton Meltzer, Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

  Francis J. Murphy, Père Jacques: Resplendent in Victory. Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications, 1998.

  Samuel and Pearl Oliner, The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. New York: Free Press, 1988.

  Irene Gut Opdyke (with Jeffrey M. Elliot), Into the Flames: The Life Story of a Righteous Gentile. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1992.

  Mordecai Paldiel, The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of the Jews During the Holocaust. Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishers, 1993.

  Mordecai Paldiel, Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers. Minneapolis: Fortress Publishers, 1995.

  Mordecai Paldiel, Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Persons Who Defied the ‘Final Solution’. Rockville, Maryland: Schreiber Publishing, 2000.

  Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spared Lives: The Actions of Three Portuguese Diplomats in World War Two, Documentary Exhibition Catalogue. Lisbon: Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, September 2000.

  Dr Alexander Ramati, as told by Padre Rufino Niccaci, The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews. New York: Stein & Day, 1978. Hannu Rautkallio, Finland and the Holocaust: The Rescue of Finland’s Jews. New York: Holocaust Library, 1987.

  Carol Rittner and Sandra Myers (editors), The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 1986.

  Harvey Sarner, Rescue in Albania: One Hundred Percent of Jews in Albania Rescued from Holocaust. Cathedral City, California: Brunswick Press, 1997.

  Eric Silver, The Book of the Just: The Silent Heroes Who Saved Jews from Hitler. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992.

  Michael Smith, Foley, the Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

  Tina Strobos, The Book of Courage: The First Annual Act of Courage Awards, Victims Assistance Services Brochure, Hudson River Museum, New York, 4 May 2001.

  Uriel Tal (editor), The Grey Book: A Collection of Protests Against Anti-Semitism and the Persecution of Jews Issued by Non-Roman Catholic Churches and Church Leaders During Hitler’s Rule. Assen, Holland: Van Gorcum, 1969.

  Hudson Talbott, Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2000.

  Nechama Tec, When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

  Tzvetan Todorov (editor), The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria’s Jews Survived the Holocaust. A Collection of Texts with Commentary. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.

  Irene Tomaszewski and Tecia Werbowski, Zegota: The Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland, 1942–45. Montreal: Price-Patterson, 1999.

  Meir Wagner, The Righteous of Switzerland, Heroes of the Holocaust. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, 2001.

  Leni Yahil, The Rescue of Danish Jewry: Test of a Democracy. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983.

  Memoirs

  Maja Abramowitch, To Forgive But Not Forget: Maja’s Story. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002.

  Samuel Bak, Painted in Words: A Memoir. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, in conjunction with Pucker Art Publications, Boston, 2001.

  Zev Birger, No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem, a Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor. New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.

  Tuvia Borzykowski, Between Tumbling Walls. Kibbutz Lohamei Ha-Gettaot, Israel: Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1972.

  Jeannette Brousse, Les Raisons de l’Engagement de Mme J. Brousse, Annecy, 1979. Annecy: privately printed, 1979.

  Doba-Necha Cukierman, A Guardian Angel: Memories of Lublin. East Bentleigh, Victoria, Australia: Ester Csaky, 1997.

  Dr Salim Diamand, Dottore! Internment in Italy, 1940–1945. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1987.

  Ben Edelman, Growing
Up in the Holocaust. Kansas City, Missouri: privately printed, 1980.

  Janina Fischler-Martinho, Have You Seen My Little Sister? London: Valentine Mitchell, 1988.

  Anne Frank, Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Doubleday, 1952.

  Saul Friedlander, When Memory Comes. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979.

  Varian Fry, Surrender on Demand. New York: Random House, 1945.

  Bernard Goldstein, The Stars Bear Witness. London: Victor Gollancz, 1950.

  Hana Greenfield, Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1990.

  Irene Grunbaum (translated and edited by Katherine Morris), Escape Through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

  Henry Armin Herzog,…And Heaven Shed No Tear. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1996.

  Jack Kagan and Dov Cohen, Surviving the Holocaust with the Russian Jewish Partisans. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998.

  Joseph Kagan, Knight of the Ghetto: The Story of Lord Kagan. Privately printed. No date.

  Jerzy Lando, Saved By My Face: A True Story of Courage and Escape in War-Torn Poland. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2002.

  Isabella Leitner, Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

  Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. New York: Collier Books, 1961.

  Isaac Lewin, Remember the Days of Old: Historical Essays. New York: Research Institute of Religious Jewry, 1994.

  Cirla Lewis, Cirla’s Story. London: Minerva Press, 1995.

  Rivka Lozansky Bogomolnaya, Wartime Experiences in Lithuania. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.

  Zivia Lubetkin, In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. Kibbutz Lohamei Ha-Gettaot, Israel: Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1981.

  Julius Madritsch, Menschen in Not! (‘People in distress!’). Vienna: privately published, 1946; second edition, Vienna, 1962.

  Vladka Meed, On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979.

  Beatrice Michman, Never to be Forgotten: A Young Girl’s Holocaust Memoir. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, 1997.

  Dr Jozeph Michman (editor), Righteous Among the Nations Lexicon, volume 1, Holland. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002.

  Felicja Nowak, My Star: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor. Toronto: Polish Canadian Publishing Fund, 1996.

  Irene Gut Opdyke, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer. London: Anchor/Doubleday, 2001.

  Anna Porter, The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2000.

  Leesha Rose, The Tulips Are Red. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1979.

  Donia Rosen, The Forest My Friend. New York: Bergen-Belsen Memorial Press, 1971.

  Alexander Rotenberg, Emissaries: A Memoir of the Riviera, Haute-Savoie, Switzerland and World War II. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1987.

  Joop Schijveschuurder, My Miracle: Haarlem, 1940–1945. Jerusalem: privately printed, 2001.

  Wiktoria Sliwowska, The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1998.

  Jacob Sloan (editor), Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emanuel Ringelblum. New York: Schocken Books, 1958.

  Leo Spritzer, The Culture of Memory and a Refugee from Nazism. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998.

  Gabor Sztehlo, In the Hands of God. Budapest: Gabor Sztehlo Foundation for the Help of Children and Adolescents, 1994 (English-language edition).

  Nechama Tec, Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Samuel Lipa Tennenbaum, Zloczow Memoir. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1986.

  Paul Trepman, Among Men and Beasts. London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1978.

  Edith Velmans, Edith’s Book: The True Story of How One Girl Survived the War. London: Viking, 1998.

  Rudolf Vrba (with Alan Bestic), I Cannot Forgive. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1964.

  David Wdowinski, And We Are Not Saved. London: W. H. Allen, 1964.

  Leon Weliczker Wells, The Death Brigade (The Janowska Road). New York: Macmillan, 1963.

  Elie Wiesel, Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

  Abraham Zuckerman, A Voice in the Chorus: Memoirs of a Teenager Saved by Schindler. Stamford, Connecticut: Longmeadow Press, 1991.

  Yitzhak Zuckerman (‘Antek’), A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, translated and edited by Barbara Harshav. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

  Michael Zylberberg, A Warsaw Diary, 1939–1945. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1969.

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  General Books

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