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    The Undefeated

    By Abraham S. Hyman
    Covers almost every aspect of the problem of the Jewish survivors in Germany and Austria...

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    In Denmark It Could Not Happen
    The Flight of the Jews to Sweden in 1943

    By Herbert Pundik
    A moving narrative about heroes and ethics, survival and appreciation.

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    Shake Heaven and Earth
    Peter Bergson and the Struggle to Rescue the Jews of Europe

    By Louis Rapoport
    The Story told in Shake Heaven and Earth is the basis for Bernard Weinraub's off Broadway play, "The Accomplices".

    This book sheds light on Peter Bergson who stood against the tide of passivity at the most desperate moment in Jewish history in two thousand years.

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    Heroes, Antiheroes and the Holocaust
    American Jewry and Historical Choice

    By David Morrison
    Rich with insights and uplifting heroic actions, Morrison brings to light people you never knew and well known figures you thought you did.

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    The Miracle Visas

    By Yutaka Taniuchi
    This is the dramatic story of Sempo Sugihara who, as the Japanese Consul General in Lithuania, saved over 5,000 lives by issuing illegal exit visas.

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    Riding the Wave
    The Jewish Agency for Israel 1987-1995

    By Andrea Arbel
    An account of the efforts by the Jewish Agency in the far corners of the world to bring the remnants of Jewry to their homeland, Israel.

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    The Jews' Secret Fleet (Hebrew)
    Hebrew edition

    By Murray S. Greenfield
    The dramatic story of the rescue of Jews from Europe after World War II by North American Jewish volunteers. (Also available in English)

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    Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust

    By Yisrael Gutman & Efraim Zoroff (editors)
    Activities of Jewish and Gentile organizations, responses by the Allies, Righteous Among the Nations, and the policies of the Red Cross.

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    Price: $30.00 
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    Unsafe Haven

    By Mayer Abramowitz
    Through lives of the people related in Unsafe Haven, Mayer Abramowitz tells the exciting story swept up in history—through the Holocaust and the birth of Israel—and in their postwar emergence in the United States.

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    The Fugu Plan
    The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II

    By Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz
    There was one nation that did treat the Jews as if they were powerful and rich. The Japanese...

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    Perfidy

    By Ben Hecht
    Over 30 years out-of-print, Perfidy is back, with murder, conspiracy and deep betrayal at its disturbing core!

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    The Jews’ Secret Fleet
    The Untold Story of North American Volunteers who Smashed the British blockade

    By Murray S. Greenfield
    To read a recent feature about this book in the press click here The dramatic story of the rescue of Jews from Europe after World War II by North American Jewish volunteers. Includes major introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and author of numerous books on history and geography.

    Read Hillel Halkin's July 31, 2007 New York Sun's article Remember Aliyah Bet
    based on an interview with Murray Greenfield, one of the volunteers crew members from the United States who served on the the ship Hatikvah.

    Listen to A Sailor's Story,
    a July 16, 2007 Nextbook.com interview with unlikely Exodus crew-member Jack Johnson from Alaska, who recalls his part in this great episode of modern Jewish history.

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