Advocate For The Dead: The Story Of Joel Brand
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one of the most audacious and heartbreaking rescue missions of World War II — the desperate attempt by a Hungarian Jewish emissary to negotiate with the Nazi regime for the lives of one million Jews. Alex Weissberg reconstructs Brand's harrowing 1944 mission, in which Adolf Eichmann offered a grotesque bargain: Jewish lives in exchange for ten thousand trucks, a proposal that thrust Brand into a labyrinthine world of espionage, Allied indifference, and impossible moral calculus. Weissberg, himself a survivor of Soviet and Nazi persecution, brings an unsparing moral urgency to his account, anchoring geopolitical betrayal in the profoundly human cost borne by Brand and the communities he fought to save. Translated from the German by Constantine FitzGibbon and Andrew Foster-Melliar, the narrative captures the collision between wartime realpolitik and individual conscience with the precision of a historical document and the weight of a tragedy. A searing indictment of bureaucratic inaction in the face of genocide, this work forces the reader to confront an unsettling question: when the machinery of rescue was within reach, why did the world look away?
Author: Alex Weissberg
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Andre Deutsch
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one of the most audacious and heartbreaking rescue missions of World War II — the desperate attempt by a Hungarian Jewish emissary to negotiate with the Nazi regime for the lives of one million Jews. Alex Weissberg reconstructs Brand's harrowing 1944 mission, in which Adolf Eichmann offered a grotesque bargain: Jewish lives in exchange for ten thousand trucks, a proposal that thrust Brand into a labyrinthine world of espionage, Allied indifference, and impossible moral calculus. Weissberg, himself a survivor of Soviet and Nazi persecution, brings an unsparing moral urgency to his account, anchoring geopolitical betrayal in the profoundly human cost borne by Brand and the communities he fought to save. Translated from the German by Constantine FitzGibbon and Andrew Foster-Melliar, the narrative captures the collision between wartime realpolitik and individual conscience with the precision of a historical document and the weight of a tragedy. A searing indictment of bureaucratic inaction in the face of genocide, this work forces the reader to confront an unsettling question: when the machinery of rescue was within reach, why did the world look away?