At Great Risk: Memoirs of Rescue during the Holocaust

By Eva Lang and David Korn and Fishel Philip Goldig

The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs

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Many rescuers often say they only did what any decent person would have done in their position, and yet we know that is not true. They did what so many others did not do.

In France, underground networks find refuge for eleven-year-old Eva Lang and her younger sisters, protecting them from internment camps. In an orphanage in Slovakia, a pastor shelters young David Korn and his older brother, saving them from deportation. In a village in Poland, a farmer hides nine-year-old Fishel Philip Goldig and his parents after they escape from a ghetto and certain death. When so many people stood by during the anti-Jewish atrocities of the Holocaust, others risked their lives to save their Jewish friends and neighbours, and often even strangers. The three feature memoirs in At Great Risk are accompanied by excerpted stories of rescue by thirteen previously published Azrieli Foundation authors, highlighting the diverse experiences of rescue during the Holocaust. Together, these stories emphasize not only the courage and moral strength of the rescuers but also the survivors’ remembrances of and gratitude to their rescuers after the war.

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Publication Date: April 15, 2021

Reading Age: Adult

Genre: Adult Nonfiction

Product Format: Paperback

Pages: 416

ISBN: 9781989719107

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