On April 11, 2005, in Jerusalem, Karl Plagge will be named a "Righteous Among the Nations" hero by the State of Israel. He joins Oskar Schindler and some 380 other similarly honored Germans who protected and saved Jews during the Holocaust.Karl Plagge's story is of a unique kind of courage -- that of a German army officerwho subverted the system of death to save the lives of some 250 Jews in Vilna, Lithuania. One of those he saved was Michael Good's mother.Haunted by his mother's stories of the mysterious officer who ...
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On April 11, 2005, in Jerusalem, Karl Plagge will be named a "Righteous Among the Nations" hero by the State of Israel. He joins Oskar Schindler and some 380 other similarly honored Germans who protected and saved Jews during the Holocaust.Karl Plagge's story is of a unique kind of courage -- that of a German army officerwho subverted the system of death to save the lives of some 250 Jews in Vilna, Lithuania. One of those he saved was Michael Good's mother.Haunted by his mother's stories of the mysterious officer who commanded herslave labor camp, Michael Good resolved to find out all he could about the enigmatic"Major Plagge." For five years, he wrote hundreds of letters and scoured theInternet to recover, in one hard-earned bit of evidence after another, informationabout the man whose moral choices saved hundreds of lives. This unforgettablebook is the first portrait of a modest man who simply refused to play by the rules.Interviewing camp survivors, opening German files untouched for more thanfifty years, and translating newly discovered letters, Good weaves an amazing tale.An engineer from Darmstadt, Plagge joined, and then left, the Nazi Party. In Vilna, in whose teeming ghetto tens of thousands of Jews faced extermination, he foundhimself in charge of a camp where military vehicles were repaired. Time aftertime, he saved Jews from prison, SS death squads, and the ghetto by issuingthem work permits as "indispensable" laborers essential to the war effort.Karl Plagge never considered himself a hero, describing himself as a fellow travelerfor not doing more to fight the regime. He said that he saved Jews -- and others -- because "I thought it was my duty." This book also reminds us ofthe many wayshuman beings can resist evil. "There are always some people," Pearl Good said ofthe man who saved her life w
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 264 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2004028106 Type of material Book Personal name Good, Michael, 1957-Main title The search for Major Plagge: the Nazi who saved Jews / Michael Good. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Description 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0823224406 (hardcover) LC classification DS135. L5 G66 2005 Contents Family journey--The destruction of the Jews of Vilna--The Gduds--The Esterowicz--Searching through the mists of time--The discoveries--Who is a hero? Subjects Good, William Z. Good, Pearl. Plagge, Karl, 1897-1957. Good, Michael--Correspondence. Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Germany--Biography. Lithuania--Ethnic relations. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 940.53/1835/092 Geographic area code e-li---
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 271 pages including index. Expanded Edition. There are no marks or writing in the book. Black and white photographs. Corners are square. No reading creases on the spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages.
