The Moses of Rovno The stirring story of Fritz Graebe, A German Christian who risked his life to lead hundreds of Jews to safety during the Holocaust

by HUNEKE, DOUGLAS K.

• ISBN13: 9780891414575
• ISBN10: 0891414576
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-06-01
• Publisher: Presidio Press

Summary

“Fritz Graebe’s courage justifies our faith in humankind.”—Elie Wiesel, author of Night

“This book combines a story of high moral passion with all the excitement of a spy thriller. Fritz Graebe, who as a non-Jew risked his life repeatedly during World War II to save Jews from Hitler’s firing squads and death camps, was also an exceedingly astute and clever man who time and again outwitted the Nazis at their own game. Tragically there were too few Fritz Graebes to avert catastrophe for the great majority of European Jews, but his story is a reminder that during even the darkest moments of human history there are individuals who, at great personal cost, say ‘no’ to the darkness and provide beacons of light for the rest of us. As we face our own moral dilemmas, we can only hope that some of Fritz Graebe’s courage rubs off on us.”—Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of theology and ethics, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Actions Taken Against the Jews	p. 1
Terror in the Streets	p. 5
The Essen Jail	p. 17
From Kronenburg to Sdolbonov	p. 26
The Moses of Rovno: July 13, 1942	p. 50
Dubno, The Land That Trembled: October 5, 1942	p. 64
Death in the Ukraine: The Sdolbonov District is Judenrein	p. 78
"Snapshots"	p. 92
The Conspiracies: Health and Enemies	p. 99
The Ending of a Time in History	p. 123
Bearing Witness to the Unspeakable	p. 148
Newspaper Attack: Germany, 1965	p. 167
Postwar Portraits	p. 172
Epilogue: The Lessons of Fritz Graebe's Life: The Origins of a Moral Person	p. 177
The Nuremberg Record I	p. 189
The Nuremberg Record II	p. 192
"Der Spiegel and Hermann Graebe--A Correspondence." (Yad Vashem Bulletin)	p. 196
Notes	p. 205
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