The Search for Major Plagge Audiobook Libro.fm

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Part detective story part personal quest Michael Goods book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghettoincluding the life of Goods mother Pearl Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often

After five years of researchinterviewing survivors assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years following every lead he could Good was able to uncover the amazing tale of one mans remarkable courage And in April 2005 Karl Plagge joined Oskar Schindler and 380 other Germans as Righteous among Nations honored by the State of Israel for protecting and saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust

This expanded edition features a new epilogue on the impact of the discovery of Karl Plaggeespecially the story of eightythreeyearold Alfons von Deschwanden who after fifty years of silence came forward as a veteran of Plagges unit His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth

Contains mature themes