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Author Goldman, Stanley A. (Lawyer), author.

Title Left to the mercy of a rude stream : the bargain that broke Adolf Hitler and saved my mother / Stanley A. Goldman
Published Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part 1; 1. "Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream"; 2. "Salvation through Labor"; 3. A Minor Clerical Error; 4. A Führer of Industry; 5. The Children of Luck; Part 2; 6. The Last Party of the Third Reich; 7. Meeting Himmler; 8. Appointment with the Executioner; 9. Trading for Jewish Lives; 10. A True Believer; 11. The Count of the Red Cross; 12. The Buses Were White; 13. Time Brings on All Revenges; Part 3; 14. There Was No Returning; 15. Memory; 16. The Last Chapter; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography
Summary "Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Stanley A. Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend?s daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented activities of one man?s negotiations with the Nazi?s interior minister and SS head, Heinrich Himmler, for the release of the Jewish women from the concentration camp at Ravensbr?ck. While looking through the pamphlet, the two discovered a picture that could have been their mothers being released from the camp. Wanting to know the details of how they were saved, Goldman set out on a long and difficult path to unravel the mystery. After years of researching the pamphlet, Goldman learned that a German Jew named Norbert Masur made a treacherous journey from the safety of Sweden back into the war zone in order to secure the release of the Jewish women imprisoned at the Ravensbr?ck concentration camp. Masur not only succeeded in his mission against all odds but he contributed to the downfall of the Nazi hierarchy itself. This amazing, little-known story uncovers a piece of history about the undermining of the Nazi regime, the women of the Holocaust, and the strained but loving relationship between a survivor and her son."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Repstein, Malka, approximately 1910-1999
Masur, Norbert, 1901-1971.
Goldman, Stanley A. (Lawyer)
SUBJECT Goldman, Stanley A. (Lawyer)
Masur, Norbert, 1901-1971
Repstein, Malka
Subject Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) fast
Subject Holocaust survivors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Germany
Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Internment camps
Holocaust survivors
Jewish women in the Holocaust
California -- Los Angeles
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
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