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Author Good, Michael

Title The Search for Major Plagge : the Nazi Who Saved Jews (Expanded Edition)
Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (532 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; preface to the second edition; Part I: An American Awakening; Part II: The Holocaust; Part III: The Search For Major Plagge; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Appendix A: Transcript of the Denazification Trial of Karl Plagge; Appendix B: Letters of Karl Plagge to Attorney Strauss; Appendix C: Good Family Tree; Index; Footnotes
Summary When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero?and about one American doctor?s extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge?s story. Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good?s book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilna ghetto?including the life of Good?s mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After five years of research?interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for
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Subject Good, William Z
Good, Pearl
Plagge, Karl, 1897-1957.
Good, Michael -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Good, Michael -- Correspondence
Plagge, Karl, 1897-1957
Good, Pearl
Good, William Z
Good, Michael fast
Good, Pearl fast
Good, William Z. fast
Plagge, Karl, 1897-1957 fast
Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Personal narratives
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Germany -- Biography
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
SUBJECT Lithuania -- Ethnic relations
Subject Germany
Lithuania
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823224425
0823224422