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The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage
by
Mark Klempner (Goodreads Author),
Christopher R. Browning
A first generation Jewish-American, seeks out some of the last surviving rescuers of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Holland to produce this collective portrait of ten heroic individuals.
Hardcover, 235 pages
Published
March 1st 2006
by Pilgrim Press
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The Research and Writings of a Great Humanist
Mark Klempner has published a revised edition of his 2006 book that represented his intensive research and thoughtful interviews with ten Dutch rescuers of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Not having read the original version this reviewer cannot make comparisons between the two editions, but that is inconsequential. This book is so deeply moving, so meticulously researched and so important that it stands alone as a pinnacle achievement. Accordin...more
Mark Klempner has published a revised edition of his 2006 book that represented his intensive research and thoughtful interviews with ten Dutch rescuers of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Not having read the original version this reviewer cannot make comparisons between the two editions, but that is inconsequential. This book is so deeply moving, so meticulously researched and so important that it stands alone as a pinnacle achievement. Accordin...more
When the Nazis invaded Holland, persecution of the Jews began almost immediately. While most people hid in their homes in fear, a few courageous students formed the Dutch resistance and began to hide Jewish children all over the country in direct defiance to the Nazis. Their work was very dangerous and many lost their lives in the process. Author Mark Klempner travels back to the Netherlands to interview a few of these angels now at the sunset of their lives. Klempner's journey becomes a cathart...more
This is a wonderful book, with meaningful lessons told as high adventure, really. It is hard for me to read Holocaust stories knowing that everyone whom you grow to love will die a horrible death. Here we have ordinary heroes performing ordinary miracles and living to tell us about it. In a time of cynicism and growing discontent, we find these people who, at a crossroads in history, did the right thing, because it seemed the only thing that they could do.
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an uplifting story about the holocaust. when people are seriously tested, I think that is when their true nature comes out.
This book had the same number (Dewey Decimal that is at the Provo Library) as Maus (that Shamae read and recommended) but honestly, when I looked at Maus I didn't feel like I could handle it where and when I was.
So when I saw this book right there by it I thought I'd give it a go. This is really a wonderful book. Very inspiring and I love that the author brings out that the people he interviewed that had helped rescue and hide people during the war still work to help people and causes today. It...more
So when I saw this book right there by it I thought I'd give it a go. This is really a wonderful book. Very inspiring and I love that the author brings out that the people he interviewed that had helped rescue and hide people during the war still work to help people and causes today. It...more
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Mark Klempner is a historian, memoirist, and social commentator. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, Klempner spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers in order to write The Heart Has Reasons: Dutch Rescuers of Jewish Children during the Holocaust. Klempner grew up in New York, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997,...more
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