Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Autore di The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust
Opere di Agnes Grunwald-Spier
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1944
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Hungary (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Budapest, Hungary
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Oxford University (BA|Politics and History)
Sheffield University (MA|Holocaust Studies) - Attività lavorative
- civil servant
author
Holocaust survivor
public speaker - Organizzazioni
- British Epicure Society
Mensa - Premi e riconoscimenti
- MBE (2016)
- Breve biografia
- Agnes Grunwald-Spier was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II. As a baby, she and her mother were saved from deportation to Auschwitz by an unknown official. Later they were sent to the Budapest Ghetto, and survived to be liberated in January 1945. After emigrating to the UK, she earned degrees in history and politics from Oxford University and in Holocaust studies from Sheffield University, with a dissertation on Varian Fry. She became a civil servant, a Justice of the Peace, and a member of the Architects' Registration Board. She is a founding trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and served as a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews for 15 years. Her first book, The Other Schindlers, was published in 2010. She was awarded the MBE in 2016.
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 8
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
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As well as providing important historical testimony to the courage and tenacity of the many rescuers listed, the author does not neglect those who, for reasons of a lack of testimony, cannot be acknowledged, but who nevertheless played their part in ensuring that contacts were made, doors opened and movement to a freed life made possible.
This book is also a tribute to those named who didn't "walk by on the other side" when they recognised evil in their midst, but took it upon themselves to act. The author's acknowledgements illustrate the extent of the Jewish diaspora whose members witnessed these acts of righteouness - from California to Shanghai, and from Worksop to Pretoria - and it is also a tribute to the author that she has managed to produce both a study and a reference work which will stand for a long time as witness to one of the darkest periods in Jewish history.
This book deserves an honoured place in the library of all researchers and writers who have Holocaust studies as part of their speciality.… (altro)