Mordecai Paldiel

Author of The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

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About the Author

Mordecai Paldiel holds a doctorate from Temple University and has served for eighteen years as Director of the Department of the Righteous among the Nations at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust martyrs and heroes memorial in Jerusalem. This is his third book on the subject. The author and his family were show more rescued during the Holocaust by a French Catholic priest, who helped them escape from Southern France into Switzerland. show less

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Works by Mordecai Paldiel

Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers (1996) 30 copies

The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (1993) 28 copies

Saving the Jews (2000) 27 copies

Saving one's own : Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust (2017) 13 copies

Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust (2007) 11 copies

Churches and the Holocaust unholy teaching, good samaritans, and reconciliation (2006) 3 copies

Dualism and genocide : the 'religious' nature of Hitler's antisemitism 1 copy

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Canonical name: Paldiel, Mordecai
Other names: PALDIEL, Mordecai
WAJSFELD, Markus
Gender: male
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The Righteous Among the Nations by Mordecai Paldiel

150 astonishing tales of incredible courage and humanity during a time of violence, cowardice and hate. The stories, which are a few pages long each, cover countries from all over the world and provide a good representation of what sort of people the Righteous Gentiles were and how they saved Jews. The author was himself rescued by a Righteous Gentile with his family when he was a child, and is story is included in this volume. There are pictures too. Although the book is 600 pages long, in my opinion it's well worth the time it takes to read it.

Unfortunately I had to knock off a star because the book seriously needed a good copyeditor. I noticed a lot of errors, mainly with punctuation and syntax.… (more)

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