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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a family in America, who, after World War II, began helping families across Europe by sending them much needed supplies, including shoes, and features paintings and collages of original photographs and foot tracings.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The author describes how he utilized his position as a hotel manager in violence-stricken Rwanda to offer shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, an act that inspired an Academy Award-nominated film.
6) Haven
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Gruber, an American journalist helps escort nearly 1,000 Jews from a Nazi concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
The biography of a Swedish diplomat during World War II, who risked his life daily as he provided Swedish passports & papers to thousands of Jewish refugees in Budapest. Half a century after he disappeared into the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg--who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust--remains a mystery. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB files were opened, but the Wallenberg file had been destroyed,...
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