Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis

Cook, Ida

ISBN 10: 0373892012 / ISBN 13: 9780373892013

Editore: Harlequin Books, 2008

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• Titolo: Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis
• Editore: Harlequin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0373892012
• ISBN 13: 9780373892013
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

A remarkable memoir about two sisters and their brave acts of resistance and heroism during World War II

Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable civil service jobs. But in 1923, a chance encounter sparked a determination to rescue of dozens of Jews facing persecution and death. Even when Ida began to earn thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters never departed from their homespun virtues of thrift, hard work, self-sacrifice and unwavering moral conviction. Through ingenuity, bottomless goodwill, and incredible bravery, the Cook sisters embark on dangerous undercover missions into the heart of Nazi Germany. They directed every spare resource toward saving as many people as they could from Hitler’s death camps, and coordinated networks of satellite families in safe nations for displaced Jews. No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook—but saving people became their greatest happiness.

First published in 1950, Ida’s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital and entertaining as the woman who wrote it, and is a moving testament to the extraordinary acts of courage by two everyday heroes.

“Safe Passage is well worth reading.” —The New Yorker

Informazioni sull?autore

Ida Cook (1904-1986), writing as Mary Burchell, authored more than 120 books over the course of five decades. A lifelong devotee of opera, she counted Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle and Maria Callas among her close friends. In 1965, together with her sister Louise, she was awarded the honor or Righteous Among Nations from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Authority in Jerusalem.