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Discover how the healing power of crystals can be used to enhance the well being and happiness of animals.
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This book was so helpful. I love it, and use it all the time. It lists many problems with animals and the gemstones and crystals to use in their healing. I would recommend this one by far!
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- Fight for life
- A great story that lost something in this telling..
- Should be on Everyones Must Read List
- History that is more exciting than the best-selling fiction
- If I could rate this higher than 5 stars I would!
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Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death
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Fight for life.......2007-06-25
Raoul Wallenberg had a mission for his life from his youngest days. He was impressed with the story of the Scarlet Pimpernel, and wanted to save people in a similar manner. During World War II, Raoul worked at the Swedish embassy in Poland, giving Swedish citizenship to thousands of Jews. These "new" Swedes were protected by Sweden, since the Nazis were not at war with Sweden, and had no wish to be. Raoul helped them out of the country, and gave others work there in his department. He provided ration cards to the starving Jews. Secretly employed by the United States government, he hired a photographer to document the activities in which he lived. Some of those photographs are in this book. Raoul fought with Adolph Eichmann with everything he had: money, wits, subtlety, threats and power, and he had plenty to work with. He escaped several attempts on his life, but in the end, fell into the hands of the Russians, who he had supposed would be friendly to him. No one really knows, or has made public, what happened to him after that. The Russian government claimed that he died, but many people reported sharing a cell with him after that.
This book was very easy to read. Linnea pulls her readers into the world of Raoul Wallenberg, and makes them care about his life. Certainly not a dry biography, it reads like a novel following an undercover agent. Even young children would be interested in his story. Read this biography, and learn of a daring and courageous man who defied the powers and authorities to save life.
A great story that lost something in this telling.........2006-08-01
The writing is clear and manages to convey many of the important details of Wallenberg's life, yet it was written for a typical young-adult audience. To a sopisticated reader this text can come across as a bit hollow and wooden. These amazing human beings and the incredible times they lived in appear somewhat simplified and one-dimensional in this book. It was lacking a bit too much in feeling and deeper exploration of human nature for this adult reader. Still Wallenberg's life is a great story and worthy of being told many times over. It's just that this one alone fails to do it complete justice.
Should be on Everyones Must Read List.......2003-04-09
This book should be read by everyone. It is informative, well written, and provides information one one of the true heros in the history of mankind. If you read "Shindlers Ark" (or saw the movie) you'll really enjoy this book.
History that is more exciting than the best-selling fiction.......2001-03-19
As a parent, I know how hard it is to find excellent, high-quality nonfiction books for older children who are at an in-between stage - not quite ready for adult books but too old for "juvenile" books. This true account of Raoul Wallenberg, a man who saved more than 100,000 Jewish men, women and children from extinction during the Holocaust, is gripping and well-written. My kids could NOT put it down and one of them is a reluctant reader, so that says a lot right there. Watching my reluctant reader with his eyes glued to the page compelled me to pick up the book myself and I was glad I did. The author has used actual archival materals and even interviewed Wallenberg's family and friends. There are also photographs included, a special touch that brings a sense of immediacy to the past. Perhaps most importantly, the author has not "talked down" to the older children who are most likely to read this book (although it could be read aloud to younger ones). Adults, too, would find this one fascinating to read. A strong recommendation for this one!
If I could rate this higher than 5 stars I would!.......1999-05-27
Raoul Wallenberg was just one Swede, and that one Swede saved over 100,000 Jewish people from certain death at the merciless hands of Adolf Eichmann. To this day no one knows what the fate of Wallenberg is. This book was wonderfully written and didn't even seem as though it was non-fiction! I loved this book and I recommend this book to anyone.
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Armed only with a Swedish diplomatic passport, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest to stop the Nazi slaughter of Jews. It's the true story of the unarmed Swede successfully confronting SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann, the SS and Gestapo and German Army
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Gripping.......2003-07-08
This is a very moving book. In describing the day to day existence of Raoul Wallenberg during the period of his face-off against Eichmann and the Hungarian anti-semites, it defines heroism. To those of us who have been fortunate to live our lives in this country, this book provides a valuable reminder that sometimes one individual who commands moral authority by virtue of his own actions can mobilize the people around him to great bravery.
Must reading: Wallenberg is Here.......2003-05-16
I have just read this fascinating historical novel by Carl Steinhouse. Having read many other materials on Nazism and the treatment of Jews in my teaching career, I have found the information, settings, and characters to be carefully portrayed. In the section on Auschwitz, I had to recall the feelings I experienced in visiting the site. While there, I tried to place myself in the role of one of the victims arriving by train and living in one of the barracks until my death. The author does give a realistic portrayal of the fate of so many humans. One must admire Wallenberg for the risks he took and the creative ways he used to help the Jews in Hungary. The author has presented the material in an easy to read and easy to follow manner. The book is one when you start reading it, you will stay up late into the night because Steinhouse has written a most interesting book on an important series of events in our history.
Fiction/Non Fiction--A Subtle Metamorphosis.......2003-03-01
If a reader is looking for a good factual, non-fictional account of the horrors of late 1944 Budapest and the efforts of a little known Swedish hero to save the last remaining Jewish community in Europe, then by all means pursue Carl Steinhouse's Wallenberg is Here! If, on the other hand, one wants to immerse one's self in an exciting World War II work of historical fiction, then by all means read Carl Steinhouse's Wallenberg is Here. Can these paradoxical recommendations be a misprint? Most assuredly not, as Mr. Steinhouse's moving portrayal of the true story of Raoul Wallenberg works extremely well on both levels. In fact, it is actually an excellent example of the increasingly popular genre of the fictionalized version of real events peopled by the actual figures, both famous and infamous, in the history of man's journey on this planet.
Carl Steinhouse places us in Budapest in late 1944 and early 1945 with a verisimilitude worthy of the better-known writers of World War II fiction, and his accurate historiography reflects what must have been a long and painstaking research process. The facts presented are reminiscent more of a post-graduate thesis than of a work of historical fiction and while the read is not the juicy stew of other books in this genre, it still remains a tasty consommé to lovers of these works.
The primary antagonists in this quintessential good versus evil tableau are Adolph Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg. Eichmann and his brutal history are well known to the masses, but Wallenberg is known mostly to those interested in Holocaust studies and it is only in recent years that his leviathan efforts to rescued a doomed humanity have become more widely heralded. Steinhouse provides the reader with a brilliant portrayal of both these men, reinforcing the ignominy so well deserved by the Nazi and the honor due the little known Swedish diplomat. Even the more intense scholars of this global calamity will learn more about the Second World War from this well executed factual/fictional tract.
Mr. Steinhouse deserves praise for reinforcing the utter depravity of Hitler's war against the Jews by presenting it on a very personal, average-man level. By illustrating the work with individual criminal acts, the enormity of the bestial atrocities committed by the Third Reich and its willing accomplices are seared into the reader's consciousness. Obviously some of these victims are fictional, yet their suffering is all too real. The author has also included many lesser know villains in his treatise and by doing so further creates the travail suffered by the Jews of Budapest at the hands of their sadistic tormentors, the Nazis and their willing local fascist allies, the Arrow Cross of Hungary.
The six years of global conflict in the middle years of the twentieth century has provided a most fertile field for authors to cultivate, and the flow of true stories from this period that continue to amaze one seem infinite. Following in this tradition, Mr. Steinhouse has definitely both entertained and enlightened, The book lover in search of a World War Two thriller and the serious student of the history of this watershed in world history can both find intellectual satisfaction between the covers of his eminently readable work. It definitely deserves a place in the literary canon of this fascinating period.
Wallenberg Is Here.......2003-01-18
This is a novel of contrasts - cruelty with compassion, horror with human kindness, despair with hope. The author paints a rending picture of the life-and-death struggle between two men, Raoul Wallenberg, young Swedish diplomat, and Adolph Eichmann, Nazi exterminator. They were alike in their perseverance but vastly different in their values and goals. The fate of thousands of Hungarian Jews was in their hands. While fictionalized, the incidents in which Wallenberg and his associates prevented the deportation of Jews and a memorable debate between Wallenberg and Eichmann have the ring of authenticity. The major and minor characters seem very real. The format of the book, giving date and place of each incident, helps move the story forward.
This novel brings to light a less well known part of the terrible Holocaust epic and gives deserved attention to one of the great benefactors of the period. It is disturbing to read of the terrible Final Solution, and of the slowness of the U.S. government to get involved in extending aid to the victims of Nazi persecution. There is evidence of careful and painstaking research by the author. An excellent bibliography is included.
You are there!.......2003-01-10
I recommend this well written historical book to anyone who wants to know the truth about this horrible period in our life time.
Mr.Steinhouse's insight and documentation of the personalities of Wallenberg and Eichmann was facsinating. He wrote a unique comparison of the two men. It was intriguing to read about Wallenberg's compassion for the Jews and Eichmann's total disregard for human life for his own gain. I could not put the book down once I started it. I felt that I was there!
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An important book, butchered by Ballantine.......2003-04-24
This Ballantine paperback printing is full of printer's errors, an insult to the author's fine work and vitally important topic.
Wallenberg.......2002-10-17
This is a story about a fearless swede who risked his life going behind enemy lines to save the lives of Hungarian Jews. This is a good book for those who want to read about what happened to Jews in this time period. I didn't like the first part of the book but I enjoyed reading the end because of all the information about how Wallenberg could have lived through the seventies trapped in Soviet prisons.
A great movie title - Wallenberg's List........2001-07-29
It is regrettable, and a mystery to me how a book that it is so well-written and important can go out of print, but such is apparently the case with Kati Marton's book "Wallenberg". Reading this book is something I will never forget. It is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a young Swedish diplomat whose heroic and selfless efforts saved thousands (some say as many as 100,000) Hungarian Jews from certain death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Budapest's Jews were among the last substantial population threatened by the Nazi's, and in July of 1944 Wallenberg was sent there by the Swedish Foreign Ministry in an effort to rescue the remaining 200,000 Jews from planned deportations. He issued thousands of Swedish Embassy-stamped "Schutzpassen" which were provisional or "protective" passports, granting the bearer not only an exemption from wearing the humiliating yellow star, but (more importantly) extending to them the rights of Swedish citizens, with the eventual intention of being "repatriated" to Sweden. With funds supplied from the War Refugee Board, Wallenberg also secured property which he then converted into "safe houses" for those rescued from deportations. Can you imagine? At times, Wallenberg put himself on the line and pressured SS officials into turning over to his custody "prisoners" who were already on board deportation trains! He then organized a network of hundreds of Jewish agents who managed the distribution of food and medicine to Jews in his shelters.
The tragic twist to this story is that after Budapest's liberation, Wallenberg himself was arrested by the Soviets on espionage charges and imprisoned, presumably until the rest of his life, for his fate remains shrouded in mystery. All attempts by his family and government to obtain his release were frustrated. To placate the mass of inquiries, Lubyanka Prison officials gave a date of Wallenberg's alleged death as being July 17, 1947. The end of Marton's book goes into many reasons why such an ending to Wallenberg's life seems suspicious. She explains how that Wallenberg was "quite possibly the Soviet's most important prisoner. His name and his legend were too powerful to release." A free Wallenberg would be a "living indictment" and would have presented a dangerous competition to the Communist party's most jealously guarded possessions: legitimacy and power.
The author says in chapter 10: "Wallenberg was imbued with a conviction that anything was within reach, any goal could be met if one just applied oneself, and all of one's God-given gifts to its fulfillment." Here where I live in the capital city of Canada there is a Raoul Wallenberg Park... and whenever I drive by it I am powerfully reminded of the importance of remembering this hero of humanity, who, in the name of the civilized world sacrificed his own freedom in a fight to hold the uncivilized portion of that world accountable to the last.
An amazing--truly amazing--person.......1998-03-24
A spine-chilling account of this great man's days in Budapest, followed by a rather tenuous and undocumented account of his horrors in the Gulag. Well written and gripping.
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A Righteous Gentile - A Righteous Read.......2007-07-31
The Letters and Dispatches of Raoul Wallenberg provide a glimpse of a man who paid, somewhere and somehow in the Soviet Union, the ultimate price for his efforts to bring others to safety. While much is now debated about the benefits of neutrality to Sweden during the Holocaust, what cannot be debated is the intentionality of this man to provide Hungarian Jews a safe haven in Sweden, saving them from Hitler's death camps. An excellent read, this work provides insight through Raoul's own words and the responses of those he wrote to. Introductions to the letters and dispatches provide an excellent framework, assisting the reader with historical perspective, relational understanding and context.
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Raoul Wallenberg:A Hero Allowed To Slip Through a Russian Sewer Grate.......2006-02-23
John Bierman's terrifically tragic Wallenberg biography,'Righteous Gentile' is divided into two parts;the first 119 pages lead up to his kidnapping by the Russians on
January 17,1945.The last 97 pages deal with the world's apathy in securing his release from the Gulag.Thousands of Jews and some non-Jews owe their lives to Wallenberg's intervention on
"behalf of the Swedish government"-which dealt with the Wallenberg kidnapping issue as buroucracies tend to do.Bierman's Wallenberg book was published in 1981-and there were credible reports that Wallenberg was still vegetating in the Soviet prison system.The sin of allowing this to happen-is beyond unforgivable.
Sweden's greatest samaritan.......2003-05-22
A five star book about a five star hero.
The second world war threw-up some gigantic figures but ironically Raoul Wallenberg from neutral Sweden towers over all the rest.
Like the Good Samaritan he didn't pass on by but instead left his safe homeland to assist others by putting himself in danger day after day in the inferno that was Hungary during the dreadful days of 1944-45.
The man who saved a 100,000 jews from the clutches of Adolf Eichmann, the SS, and the Hungarian facists, the Arrow Cross ultimately fell foul of the Russian 'liberators.' He was never seen again as a free man after being taken into 'protective custody' by the Reds on 17 January 1945.
I read John Bierman's excellent book some 20 years ago and he charts the extraordinary crusade of his subject with a deft touch.
This is a book that will both inspire you, with Wallenberg's humanity and courage, and anger you that such a man could lose his liberty after fighting so hard for the freedom and safety of others.
In the pantheon of heroes Raoul Wallenberg-the righteous gentile-would have to be at the very top
fitting tribute to a great hero.......2002-01-02
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish aristocrat who managed to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the gas chambers in the closing months of 1944. His relief agency in Budapest issued bogus Swedish passports to as many Jews as possible. By dint of his commanding personality, his ingenuity, and his talent for pulling the wool over the eyes of dimwitted Nazi functionaries, he contrived to convince the German and Hungarian authorities to respect these entirely extralegal documents. In mid-January 1945, he was summoned to the Soviet embassy in newly-"liberated" Budapest, and he was never seen again.
This is a great and inspiring story, and "Righteous Gentile" does justice to it. Bierman doesn't really succeed in explaining the origins of the idealism that led Wallenberg to volunteer for this job in the first place, but probably nobody could. What he does show is the skill and energy with which Wallenberg executed the task assigned to him. Actually "skill and energy" are ludicrously inadequate terms. Wallenberg not only distributed his passports, he tirelessly roamed around pulling Jews out of death marches and off trains bound for Auschwitz, he bossed Nazi thugs around in impeccable Hochdeutsch (and they listened), and he confronted Adolf Eichmann himself, all the while taking the most extraordinary risks. I can't say that Wallenberg was the greatest hero in recorded history, since I'm not familiar with all of it; suffice to say that he is by a very large margin the greatest hero I've ever read of, in fiction or history, and it is an inspiring and hopeful fact that someone like him ever existed. I am grateful to John Bierman for bringing this figure to such luminous and memorable life.
The only problem I have with the book is that half of it consists of speculations and rumor-cataloguing to the effect that Wallenberg was alive in the Gulag until about 1980. I believe that most authorities now think he was murdered by the Soviets long before this, perhaps after they failed to recruit him for espionage. This part of the book is therefore something of an anachronism. However, it doesn't detract from the general value of the book, which should be required reading for everybody, period.
An Inspiring Book.......2001-11-12
I read this book about 1982. I used to work the night shift at a hospital and on Sunday mornings, I recall listening to a Sunday Morning NPR talk show. One morning, Howard Cosel interviewed the author of Righteous Gentile. I was completely fascinated by this story that I had never heard. Howard was masterful in his interview and I was so taken that I immediately purchased the book and read it. It is riveting and I could not put it down until I had consumed it all. I am always in amazed wonderment at ordinary people who perform extraordinary acts under dire conditions. Wallenberg was such a man. The story is, of course, a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, as Wallenberg disappears into the Russian Gulag. I irony of his imprisonment in the Gulag after having saved so many Jews from their fate in the Holocost. It is one of those books that is uplifting because it reminds us of both the good and evil that humans are capable of.
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WALLENBERG BOOK DETAILS U.S. CULPABILITY In Betrayal of Holocaust Hero
Entitled "A CONSPIRACY OF INDIFFERENCE: THE RAOUL WALLENBERG STORY," the book contains new and controversial material about Raoul Wallenberg, a hero of the Holocaust, and reveals that for half a century the United States, which had recruited Wallenberg, abandoned the Swedish diplomat.
This book begins where others end and takes the Wallenberg story to the present day.
Two large gray boxes from the Central Intelligence Agency containing 1,500 documents analyzed by author Alan Gersten, specify that, through inaction and subversion, the U.S. and Swedish governments let Wallenberg languish in the camps of silence, known as the Gulag Archipelago. These documents show that America, which sent Wallenberg on one of World War II's most hazardous missions, betrayed this man who achieved the unachievable to rescue 100,000 Jews.
Since his disappearance, many tried and all failed to find Wallenberg or pinpoint his whereabouts. His family made impassioned pleas to the highest levels of American government to locate and free him, only to be ignored five times. All attempts to free Wallenberg were perpetually bungled. These included proposed spy swaps and an historic and unusual lawsuit against the Soviet Union that the plaintiffs initially won, but ultimately lost.
A joint Swedish-Russian group--after more than nine years of study--released two reports on January 12, 2001, which Mr. Gersten also draws upon. The Russian version claims Wallenberg was killed in 1947, yet the Swedish version raises many theories without arriving at any conclusions.
The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., accepted the book for its bookstore after a rigorous vetting process to insure the book's accuracy.
Guy von Dardel, half-brother of Raoul Wallenberg, recently called the author from Switzerland, saying that "this is an excellent book. It is an important part of our efforts to save Raoul...I am glad that this law case has at last been described in depth.
Annette Lantos, whose husband, Tom, is a Democratic Congressman from California, praised this book. "As you know, Tom and I owe our lives to Raoul Wallenberg. We have fought together to increase awareness of Wallenberg's disappearance and courageous accomplishments. I am delighted to hear that we were helpful to you on your honorable project. My husband and I commend you on a job well done."
Nina Lagergren, Wallenberg's half-sister, said, "I found the book most interesting and the title appropriate." She called the author from her home in Sweden to say she liked the book.
More positive reaction to the book comes from Dr. Marvin W. Makinen, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, who has been working for about 20 years to try to free Raoul Wallenberg or find out what happened to him. Dr. Makinen helped champion the lawsuit and participated as an expert in the Swedish-Russian Group.
He said, in part, "I am pleased with the level of detail in your book. You will probably be the only biographer of Wallenberg to have traversed the arduous path of details, statements, and events with respect to efforts to take the case into court. I still regret greatly that path which I still believe would have worked, given a sufficiently agile and tenacious lawyer, did not prove to be more successful."
Mr. Gersten, an award-winning journalist, spent seven years on this carefully researched book to provide new insights into this frustrating episode. In addition to the CIA documents and the Swedish-Russian reports, Mr. Gersten examined an additional 1,000 documents from the archives of the State Department and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., and supplemented archival research with interviews of family members and others connected with the cause-celebre.
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A book that keeps you thinking........2001-11-08
The title of this book is unfortunately an accurate description of Raoul Walllenberg's fate. Why wouldn't (or couldn't) the United States step in to save a man they later named an honorary citizen from the Russian prisons? Or for that matter, why did Sweden abandon a countryman of family stature the likes of a Rockefeller in the United States? This book is part biography, part mystery novel as to what may have happened to Raoul Wallenberg. Gersten explores in depth each possible angle beyond the well-known factors of his life, yet allows the reader to make up his own version of the truth behind his tragic disappearance. One can only wonder how many heroes there would be in the world if they were all treated this way. I did not know who Raoul Wallenberg was before I read this book, and now I will never forget him.
Wallenberg book fills niche.......2001-09-26
Ronald J. Gold, a Chicago lawyer, said this about the book:
I found the book very interesting. Why did the Russians grab him (Wallenberg)? What was so special about him that they would go to such extremes to keep things secret? Did they kill him or did he just waste away?
The legal issues were interesting but basically showed that even well-respected lawyers allowed their vanity to get in the way of the objective. Did anyone ever honestly believe that you could successfully sue the Soviet Union in a federal court? The only reason they won initially was because Mother Russia had defaulted and the trial judge was compelled to rule in their favor.
I think the above shows, however, the value of a book like this. Although I had heard of Wallenberg and saw his name listed on the path of martyrs in Israel, the real issue is that he saved Jews. The book must have taken countless hours of research and the author should be proud of his effort.
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The story of one of the great heroic figures of the 20th century—a young Swedish aristocrat who saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust before mysteriously disappearing into the Soviet Gulag.
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