Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers

"A book that incorporates new research and analysis on the improbable tale of how Americans and Nazis collaborated to save Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersoh (1880-1950), the charismatic world-wide leader of a small ultra-Orthodox community of Hasidic Jews originating in western Russia and headquartered in Warsaw at the outbreak of Hitler's invasion of Poland"-- " "Were this story a novel, it would have the character of an implausible fable, but as often occurred in the Holocaust, reality exceeds the imagination."--Michael Berenbaum, from the Foreword When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them. When word of his plight went out, a group of American Jews initiated what would ultimately become one of the strangest--and most miraculous--rescues of World War II. And this is the incredible but true story that Bryan Mark Rigg tells in The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers. Amid the chaos and hell of the emerging Holocaust, a small group of German soldiers shepherded Rebbe Schneersohn and his Hasidic followers out of Poland. In