IMPROBABLE HEROES: The True Story of How Clergy and Ordinary Citizens Risked Their Lives to Save Jews in Italy
Carl Steinhouse had been a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice and then entered into private practice specializing in class actions, white-collar crime, and antitrust investigations and trials. He served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, with a tour of duty overseas during the Korean War.Mr. Steinhouse wrote and edited books on grand jury practice, criminal trial practice, criminal jury instructions and model criminal jury instructions for the American Bar Association. He was a frequent lecturer and participant in the ABA National Institutes. At the time of the crisis for Soviet Jewry, he was active on an international level for the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, making several trips to Jerusalem and Helsinki on fact-finding missions and to the Soviet Union, aiding Refusniks (those Jews the Soviets refused to let emigrate). A former member of board of the Cleveland Anti-Defamation League and ADL's National Legal Affairs and National Fact Finding Committees, he remains active in ADL matters, including monitoring activities of hate groups.Mr. Steinhouse, who had family in German-occupied territory during World War II, and had been personally affected by the Holocaust, became interested in research on the rescuers of Jews after a visit to Budapest where he spoke with survivors of the Holocaust who related stories of how they were saved by the brave righteous Gentiles in adventures rivaling those in the imagination of any fiction writer. This resulted in his first two published books, Wallenberg is Here! and Righteous and Courageous that received rave reviews from Holocaust scholars and authors. Steinhouse used his considerable research skills, honed by thirty-five years in law enforcement and litigation practice, to marshal the facts surrounding improbable saviors of Jews.The author is happily married and lives in Naples, Florida, where he does his writing.