We think of you as an angel : Shaul Weingort and the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust

We think of you as an angel : Shaul Weingort and the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust / Sara Kadosh

[This book] sheds light on the previously unknown story of Shaul Weingort's efforts to create an aid network that would deliver food, provide South American passports, and give hope to his family and hundreds of other Polish Jews in an attempt to save their lives [during World War II]. (back co...

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Main Authors:Kadosh, Sara
Corporate Authors:International Institute for Holocaust Research
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Jerusalem : Yad va-shem, International Institute for Holocaust Research, [2019]
Subjects:
Weingort, Shaul > 1914-1946
Weingort, Saül > -1946
Poland
South America
Switzerland
1939-1945
Rabbis > Switzerland > Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Refugees > Poland
Refugees > South America
Rabbins > Suisse > Biographies
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Juifs > Sauvetage
Holocauste, 1939-1945
Réfugiés > Pologne
Réfugiés > Amérique du Sud
Rabbis
Refugees
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Rescue
Biography
Biographies
Table of Contents
Chapter one: from Bielitz to Montreux
Chapter two: the first rescue effort
Chapter three: Switzerland during World War II
Chapter four: packages to the Ghettos
Chapter five: refuge in Lwów
Chapter six: passports for rescue
Chapter seven: Vittel, the false paradise
Chapter eight: the end of the passport rescue project
Chapter nine: the deportations
Chapter ten: helping the survivors
Chapter eleven: a chaplain to the refugees
Chapter twelve: to Eretz Israel
Afterword: Shaul Weingort as a rescuer and activist

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