Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and the Cause of Human Rights, Gerhart M. Riegner (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006), x + 459 pp., 35.00
I first became aware of the “Riegner telegram” more than forty years ago, when reviewing Arthur Morse's book While Six Million Died. Since Morse's time, the telegram (or more accurately, the telegrams) has become more famous than its sender. But several years before his death in 2001 at th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-287 |
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| Summary: | I first became aware of the “Riegner telegram” more than forty years ago, when reviewing Arthur Morse's book While Six Million Died. Since Morse's time, the telegram (or more accurately, the telegrams) has become more famous than its sender. But several years before his death in 2001 at the age of ninety, Gerhart M. Riegner finally completed his autobiography, appropriately entitled Never Despair. In his book Riegner, who represented the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, recalls a very full life on behalf of persecuted Jewry, general human rights, and historical accountability., Born in 1911, Riegner was rooted in the middle-class German-Jewish world that disappeared forever after 1933. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp025 |