The Righteous Yet Unrecognized: The Muslims Who Saved Jewish Children During WWII
With his usual capacity for describing horrors of genocide and acts of compassion, historian Yair Auron presents the unknown story of Circassians who in 1942 saved Jewish youngsters from slaughter.
The world has all sorts of hunters. Some people hunt animals, others race after flash floods in the desert in the winter. Prof. Yair Auron is a hunter of a completely different type: a hunter of genocides and compassion. Auron is an Israeli historian who has dedicated a long chapter in his professional life to dealing with the two opposite sides of the human equation of modern times: genocide and, by contrast, the quiet heroes who saved lives and saved the life breath of humanity.
