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A righteous man of rescue

Ben-Dat, Mordechai

2008

Overview

He did however, refer me to a book called The Secret Alliance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in which the award-winning journalist Tad Szulc chronicles the \"extraordinary story of the rescue of the Jews\" after World War II. Describing the condition of Jews returning from Nazi death camps and from exile in Soviet Asia, Szulc quotes a high JDC official: \"They come in from those boats - boats that start their journey in Odessa, come through Naples and then into Marseilles - and then they find their way into our Paris office. They are literally without anything. They are without clothing, they are without shoes, they have no place to spend the night. They haven't a sou in their pockets. They have nothing to look forward to. . . many of them are swollen with hunger. Many of them cannot walk a step. Many of them need immediate medical attention and care. They cannot be put on their own. . . they come in walking like ghosts, like shadows. . .\" Szulc dedicated his book in part to the men and women who worked for the JDC after World War II, the \"righteous people of rescue.\"

• Publisher: Canadian Jewish News
• Subject: Harman, Avraham / Inheritances / Social life & customs / University presidents