Hardcover
2001 · Washington DC
by Bloomfield, Sarah J., Rabbi Irving Greenberg, et al.
Washington DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG-/VG minor edge and corner wear to dust jacket, light soiling and wear to slipcase,. Pale gray cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. Color-illustrated and black dust jacket with white lettering. Gray stamped cloth hardshell slipcase xxi, 218 pp. BW and color illustrations. This book reveals the little known story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Through a remarkable series of events involving the humanitarian intervention of Chiune Sugihara, and Jan Zwartendijk, the Jews found an escape route to safety. During only a few precious weeks in the summer of 1940, Sugihara and Zwartendijk, though they never met, worked in concert to issue critical diplomatic stamps that enabled the refugees to flee eastern Europe.
(Inventory #: 172486)