RT Book
T1 The Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and his astonishing rescue
T2 Modern war studies
A1 Rigg, Bryan Mark 1971-
LA English
PP Lawrence, Kansas
PB University Press of Kansas
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1620862948
AB "Were this story a novel, it would have the character of an implausible fable, but as often occurred in the Holocaust, reality exceeds the imagination."--Michael Berenbaum, from the Foreword When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them. When word of his plight went out, a group of American Jews initiated what would ultimately become one of the strangest--and most miraculous--rescues of World War II. And this is the incredible but true story that Bryan Mark Rigg tells in The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers. Amid the chaos and hell of the emerging Holocaust, a small group of German soldiers shepherded Rebbe Schneersohn and his Hasidic followers out of Poland. In the course of the daring escape--traveling by train to Berlin, rerouted to Latvia and Sweden, and carried by ship through U-boat-infested waters to America--the Rebbe would learn a shocking truth. The leader of the rescue operation, the decorated Wehrmacht soldier Ernst Bloch, was himself half-Jewish, and a victim of the rising tide of German anti-Semitism. Perhaps even more remarkable were the central roles of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Nazi military intelligence service, and of Helmuth Wohlthat, chief administrator of Goring's Four Year Plan. Pursuing every lead, amassing critical evidence, pulling together all the pieces of what could well be a political thriller, Rigg reconstructs the Rebbe's improbable escape, and tells a harrowing story about identity and moral responsibility. His book is the definitive account of an extraordinary episode in the history of World War II."--
AB "A book that incorporates new research and analysis on the improbable tale of how Americans and Nazis collaborated to save Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersoh (1880-1950), the charismatic world-wide leader of a small ultra-Orthodox community of Hasidic Jews originating in western Russia and headquartered in Warsaw at the outbreak of Hitler's invasion of Poland"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BM755.S285
SN 9780700622627
SN 0700622624
SN 9780700622610
SN 0700622616
K1 Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac 1880-1950 : Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac 1880-1950 : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) : World War (1939-1945) : 1900-1999
K1 Rabbis : Biography : Poland
K1 Hasidim : Biography : Poland
K1 Habad : History : 20th century : Poland
K1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Poland
K1 World War, 1939-1945 : Jews : Rescue : Poland : Warsaw
K1 History : Military : World War II
K1 Social Science : Jewish Studies
K1 Habad
K1 Hasidim
K1 Rabbis : Poland : Poland : Warsaw : Biography : History