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Loading... My Brother's Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust (edition 2016)by Rod Gragg (Author) lamb521 | Nov 7, 2016 |   WBCLIB | May 9, 2023 | I was glad to see one local man recognized. Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was a local boy from Knoxville, Tennessee. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer in a German POW camp, he used his position to protect the Jewish soldiers who were fellow POWs. When the Germans ordered the Jewish soldiers to report one morning, Edmonds feared that they would end up in an extermination camp. He ordered all of the American soldiers to report, and they followed his order. When questioned by the Germans, they claimed “We are all Jews.” The Germans backed down in the face of this, and the Jewish soldiers were spared. Roddie Edmonds was the first—and at this point the only—American soldier recognized by Yad Vashem. (  ) cbl_tn | Oct 5, 2018 | Author:Rod Gragg Pages:352 Year: 2016 Publisher: Center Street My rating is 5+ stars. Many books have shared the courage and cost of the many people who risked all to help Jewish people live amidst an evil rapidly advancing across the land. Corrie Ten Boom and her family are one of many who I have read about that includes her biography and testimony regarding her time in a concentration camp. Here is a book with each chapter having 3-5 pages about various individuals who risked so much to save lives and never considered doing it for self-aggrandizement. In each chapter, I read about an individual who stood up sometimes face-to-face with evil people in order to save children and others if possible. The tighter the Nazi regime got and the harsher they became towards the Jewish people and anyone helping them, these individual people still continued to devise ways to save lives. The book doesn’t include a lot of the horrible descriptions of what people endured or died from; it focuses more on the individual actions and ways God used them to save His people. Maybe others can read through a book like this in one sitting. For me, I could read a couple of chapters and then I needed to take a break. Our generation and future generations need to read a book like this so that many can be inspired to look to others’ welfare instead of our own. While we don’t have WWII going on or Nazi regimes, there are many things today in which we can pull together and help others. Read this book and remember Hebrews 12:1 because the author describes “a great cloud of witnesses”. I pray you give this book to many people of all ages so that we never forget these actions, to inspire others to walk in the path of being willing to look and reach a hand out to help whomever God puts in their path! Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.” (  ) lamb521 | Nov 7, 2016 | |
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Author:Rod Gragg
Pages:352
Year: 2016
Publisher: Center Street
My rating is 5+ stars.
Many books have shared the courage and cost of the many people who risked all to help Jewish people live amidst an evil rapidly advancing across the land. Corrie Ten Boom and her family are one of many who I have read about that includes her biography and testimony regarding her time in a concentration camp. Here is a book with each chapter having 3-5 pages about various individuals who risked so much to save lives and never considered doing it for self-aggrandizement.
In each chapter, I read about an individual who stood up sometimes face-to-face with evil people in order to save children and others if possible. The tighter the Nazi regime got and the harsher they became towards the Jewish people and anyone helping them, these individual people still continued to devise ways to save lives.
The book doesn’t include a lot of the horrible descriptions of what people endured or died from; it focuses more on the individual actions and ways God used them to save His people. Maybe others can read through a book like this in one sitting. For me, I could read a couple of chapters and then I needed to take a break. Our generation and future generations need to read a book like this so that many can be inspired to look to others’ welfare instead of our own.
While we don’t have WWII going on or Nazi regimes, there are many things today in which we can pull together and help others. Read this book and remember Hebrews 12:1 because the author describes “a great cloud of witnesses”. I pray you give this book to many people of all ages so that we never forget these actions, to inspire others to walk in the path of being willing to look and reach a hand out to help whomever God puts in their path!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.” (