The Righteous
Subtitle: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Edition: Doubleday 2002 book club edition
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780805062601
Subjects: Rescue; World War, 1939-1945; Jews; Holocaust; History; History - General History; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; History: World; Righteous Gentiles in the Holo; Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II; Jewish - General; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
First sentence: STARTING IN 1933, as Nazi rule imposed harsher and harsher conditions on the Jews of Germany, many governments opened their gates to Jewish refugees.
Description: Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust

According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world." Non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives during World War II are designated Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust archive in Jerusalem. In The Righteous, distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert, through extensive interviews, explores the courage of those who-throughout Germany and in every occupied country from Norway to Greece, from the Atlantic to the Baltic-took incredible risks to help Jews whose fate would have been sealed without them. Indeed, many lost their lives for their efforts.

Those who hid Jews included priests, nurses, teachers, neighbors and friends, employees and colleagues, soldiers and diplomats, and, above all, ordinary citizens. From Greek Orthodox Princess Alice of Greece, who hid Jews in her home in Athens, to the Ukrainian Uniate Archbishop of Lviv, who hid hundreds of Jews in his churches and monasteries, to Muslims in Bosnia and Albania, many risked, and lost, everything to help their fellow man.
Table of contents: title: Illustration Credits; title: List of Maps; title: Preface; title: Rescue in the East
label: 1.; title: Eastern Galicia
label: 2.; title: Vilna
label: 3.; title: Lithuania
label: 4.; title: Poland: The General-Government
label: 5.; title: Warsaw
label: 6.; title: Western Galicia
label: 7.; title: Germany and Austria
label: 8.; title: Germans beyond Germany
label: 9.; title: Central Europe and the Balkans
label: 10.; title: Norway, Finland and Denmark
label: 11.; title: France
label: 12.; title: Belgium and Luxembourg
label: 13.; title: Holland
label: 14.; title: Italy and the Vatican
label: 15.; title: Hungary
label: 16.; title: In the Camps and on the Death Marches
label: 17.; title: Afterword; title: Maps of Places Mentioned in the Text; title: Bibilography; title: Acknowledgements; title: Index