In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen
by Nechama Tec
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Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust that that of teenage Polish Jew, Oswald Rufeisen. Fluent in German, Rufeisen became a translator for the Nazi gendamerie, using his position to pass secret information about impending 'aktions'. When denounced, he was smuggled into a Carmelite convent by his sympathetic German commander, and later fought as a Soviet partisan. He converted to Catholicism and became a priest, but show more the now Father Daniel still insisted on the automatic Israeli citizenship granted to Jews, and fought for his right throughout the 1960s. This stirring biography also reflects the intricate connections between good and evil, cruelty and compassion, and tolerance and prejudice in this critical era of Jewish history. show lessTags
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An amazing story, that has to be read to be believed.
NO OF PAGES: 279 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: Biography SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Here is the unforgettable, definitive story of Oswald Rufeisen...of his incredible valor and personal agony as savior of substantial numbers of Jews and non-Jews during the Holocaust, while pretending to be a Nazi.NOTES: SUBTITLE: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen
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Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
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- People/Characters
- Oswald Rufeisen
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.53 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- World War II, 1939-1945
- LCC
- DS135 .P63 .R848 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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