Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0373892012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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M. Peterson said Prior to and during World War II. I found this book detailed with what was most important to these two girls/women prior to the war, which was their great interest in opera and coming to America to see great opera stars preform. Which then lead to their assisting others in order to save them from the holocaust. They were both very determined ladies.. "Safe Passage" according to Dr. M. Korn. I found it touching and in also overwhelming. I am a holocaust survivor from Vienna. I was 9 years old and we had reached Brussels. My mother received a visa as a housekeeper but 50 pounds were needed for me to go with her. Someone at the British Consulate paid so I could go. We arrived in England Safe Passage I found it touching and in also overwhelming. I am a holocaust survivor from Vienna. I was 9 years old and we had reached Brussels. My mother received a visa as a housekeeper but 50 pounds were needed for me to go with her. Someone at the British Consulate paid so I could go. We arrived in England 3 weeks before the war started. The book brought bad but also wonderful memor. weeks before the war started. The book brought bad but also wonderful memor. George Dansker said This is a must have book. I love this book. I am savoring every word, every phrase. Ida Cook and her sister Louise were truly saints of our time and the book, as written by Ida, is a gem.The detail, the humanity, the amazing rescue work that they did --- everything is recounted in a lovely writing style.I truly recommend this book.
Ida Cook (1904-1986), writing as Mary Burchell, authored more than 120 books over the course of five decades. A lifelong devotee of opera, she counted Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle and Maria Callas among her close friends. In 1965, together with her sister Louise, she was awarded the honor or Righteous Among Nations from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Authority in Jerusalem.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This reprint of the updated 1976 version features a new foreword by scholar Anne Sebba, and the charming, harrowing tale of the Cook sisters, Ida and Louise, whose holiday from their suburban London home to the United States and Western Europe turns from a music lover's grand tour into an international mission to save Jews from the Nazis. Passionate music fans, the Cook sisters' first foray into the world brought them into contact not just with operatic luminaries but the harsh realities of a world on the brink. . From Publishers Weekly Under the pseudonym Mary Burchell, UK novelist Cook (1904-1986) wrote more than 100 novels in addition to this enchanting memoir, first published in 1950 as We Followed Our Stars. With ingenuity, boundless optimism and t
They sewed their own clothes, traveled third class, bought the cheapest tickets during opera season and directed every spare resource, as well as their own considerable courage and ingenuity, toward saving as many people as they could from Hitler's death camps.Uplifting and utterly charming, Safe Passage is moving testimony to all that can be achieved when conscience and compassion are applied to a collapsing world.. Even when Ida began to earn thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters never departed from their homespun virtues of thrift, hard work, self-sacrifice and unwavering moral conviction. The Cook sisters' zest for life and genuine "goodness" sh