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Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights
Gerhart M. Riegner
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Description for Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 876.
In August 1942 a thirty-year-old counsel in the Geneva office of the World Jewish Congress sent a cable to Rabbi Stephen Wise in New York with the following message: RECEIVED ALARMING REPORT THAT IN FUHRERS HEADQUARTERS PLAN DISCUSSED AND UNDER CONSIDERATION ALL JEWS IN COUNTRIES OCCUPIED OR CONTROLLED GERMANY NUMBER 3-1/2 TO 4 MILLION SHOULD AFTER DEPORTATION AND CONCENTRATION IN EAST AT ONE BLOW EXTERMINATED TO RESOLVE ONCE FOR ALL JEWISH QUESTION IN EUROPE. Sent by Gerhart Riegner, this first recorded notice of the "Final Solution" came to be known as the Riegner Telegram. It was perhaps the most famous ... Read more
In August 1942 a thirty-year-old counsel in the Geneva office of the World Jewish Congress sent a cable to Rabbi Stephen Wise in New York with the following message: RECEIVED ALARMING REPORT THAT IN FUHRERS HEADQUARTERS PLAN DISCUSSED AND UNDER CONSIDERATION ALL JEWS IN COUNTRIES OCCUPIED OR CONTROLLED GERMANY NUMBER 3-1/2 TO 4 MILLION SHOULD AFTER DEPORTATION AND CONCENTRATION IN EAST AT ONE BLOW EXTERMINATED TO RESOLVE ONCE FOR ALL JEWISH QUESTION IN EUROPE. Sent by Gerhart Riegner, this first recorded notice of the "Final Solution" came to be known as the Riegner Telegram. It was perhaps the most famous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636964
SKU
V9781566636964
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About Gerhart M. Riegner
Gerhart M. Riegner (1911-2001) worked tirelessly during his lifetime for international human rights and held a central role in Christian-Jewish relations-all likely extensions of his early involvement in the Holocaust, to which he was so close.
Reviews for Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights
Never Despair highlights a life well lived.
Publishers Weekly
Author of the fateful telegram that alerted Jewish leadership to the Holocaust, Riegner here gives us his own account of his steadfast service.
Raul Hilberg There are so many fascinating personal anecdotes as well as history....It is truly a book of record.
Jewish Book World
Any ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
Author of the fateful telegram that alerted Jewish leadership to the Holocaust, Riegner here gives us his own account of his steadfast service.
Raul Hilberg There are so many fascinating personal anecdotes as well as history....It is truly a book of record.
Jewish Book World
Any ... Read more