Bibliography: Diplomatic Rescue in the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Prepared by Eric Saul

Alfieri, Dino. Deux dictateurs face à face: Rome-Berlin, 1939-1943. (Paris, 1948).

Anger, Per. With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary. (Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996).

Avni, Haim. “Spanish Nationals in Greece and their Fate during the Holocaust.” Yad Vashem Studies, 8 (1970), pp. 31-68.

Barros Horcasitas, Beatriz. “Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, adalid del asilo diplomático.” Sólo Historia, 12 (2001), pp. 74-87. 

Ben-Tov, Arieh. Facing the Holocaust in Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in Hungary, 1943-1945. (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1988).

Berg, Lars G. What Happened in Budapest. (Stockholm: Forsners Förlag, 1949).

Bernadotte, Folke, Count. The Fall of the Curtain: Last Days of the Third Reich. (London: Cassell, 1945).

Bertelsen, Aage. October ’43. (New York: Putnam, 1954).

Bingham, Robert Kim. Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives. (Greenwich, CT: Triune Books, 2007).

Braham, Randolph L. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981).

Breitman, Richard, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg (Eds.). Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007).

Carcedo, Diego. Un Español frente al Holocausto: Así Salvó Ángel Sanz Briz a 5.000 Judíos. (Madrid: Ediciones Temas de Hoy, 2000).

Deaglio, Enrico, translated by Gregory Conti. The Banality of Goodness: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

De Sierra, Teresa. Testimonios de Décadas Olvidadas: Conversaciones con Gilberto Bosques Saldívar. (Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Colima, 1998).

Della Rocca, Roberto Morozzo. “Roncalli Diplomatico in Turchia e Grecia, 1935-1944” in Cristianesimo nella Storia, VIII/2. (1987), pp. 33-72, particularly pp. 55-56, 58.

Dose, Johannes. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz in Dänemark: 1943-1945, 2nd ed. (Bonn: Auswärtiges Amt, 1992), Referat 012, p. 16.

Dwork, Debórah, and Robert Jan Van Pelt. Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946. (New York: Norton, 2009).

Eck, Nathan. “The Rescue of Jews With the Aid of Passports and Citizenship Papers of Latin American States.” Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance, 1 (1957), pp. 125-152.

Erbelding, Rebecca. Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe. (New York: Doubleday, 2018).

Favez, Jean-Claude.  Edited and translated by John and Beryl Fletcher. The Red Cross and the Holocaust. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Fein, Helen. Accounting for Genocide. (New York: Free Press, 1979).

Fralon, José-Alain, translated by Peter Graham. A Good Man in Evil Times: Aristides de Sousa Mendes – The Unknown Hero Who Saved Countless Lives in World War II. (New York: Viking, 2000).

Fry, Varian. Surrender on Demand. (New York: Random House, 1945).

Gutman, Yisrael (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1990).

Gutman, Israel (Editor in Chief), Sara Bender (Associate Editor). The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. 9 volumes. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003-).

Gutman, Y., and E. Zuroff (Eds.). Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalem, 3-11 April, 1974. (Jerusalem, 1977). 

Hebblethwaite, Peter. Pope John XXIII: Shepherd of the Modern World. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1985).

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews: Revised and Definitive Edition. (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985).

Hirschmann, Ira A. Caution to the Winds.  (New York: David McKay Co., 1962).

Hirschmann, Ira A. Life Line to a Promised Land. (New York: The Jewish Book Guild of America, Inc., 1946).

Ho, Feng Shan. Forty Years of My Diplomatic Life. (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1991).

Kershaw, Alex. The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II. (Da Capo Press, 2010).

Kranzler, David. The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland’s Finest Hour. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Laqueur, Walter (Ed.) and Judith Tydor Baumel (Assoc. Ed.).  The Holocaust Encyclopedia. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).

Langlet, Valdemar. Verk och dagar i Budapest (Work and Days in Budapest). (Stockholm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1946).

Lapide, Pinchas E. Three Popes and the Jews. (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967).

Lesser, Jeffrey. Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995).

Lévai, Jenö. Black Book on the Martyrdom of Hungarian Jewry. (Central European Times Publishing, 1948).

Lévai, Jenö. Raoul Wallenberg: His Remarkable Life, Heroic Battles and the Secret of His Mysterious Disappearance. (Melbourne: White Ant Occasional Publishing, 1988).

Lowrie, Donald. The Hunted Children: The Dramatic Story of the Heroic Men and Women who Outwitted the Nazis to Save Thousands of Helpless Refugees in Southern France during World War II. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963).

Milgram, Avraham. “Portugal, the Consuls, and the Jewish Refugees, 1938-1941.” Yad Vashem Studies, 27 (1999), pp. 123-155.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Spared Lives: The Actions of Three Portuguese Diplomats in World War II. (Portugal: Diplomatic Institute, 2000).

Möllhausen, Eitel Friedrich. Die Gebrochene Achse [The Broken Axis]  (Luxembourg: Alpha Verlag, 1949).

Morley, John. Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1943. (New York: Ktav, 1980).

Niewyk, Donald, and Francis Nicosia. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Paldiel, Mordecai. Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust. (Jersey City, NJ: KVAV, 2007).

Poliakov, Leon, and Jacques Sabille.  Jews under the Italian occupation. (Paris: Éditions du Centre, 1955).

Presser, Jacob, translated by Arnold Pomerans. The Destruction of the Dutch Jews. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969).

Rodriguez, Luis I. Misión de Luis I. Rodriguez en Francia: La protección de los refugiados españoles, Julio a diciembre de 1940. (Mexico: El Colegio de México, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 2000).

Runberg, Björn. Valdemar Langlet: Le Sauveur en Danger. (Le Coudray-Macouard: Cheminements, 2003).

Sakamoto, Pamela R. Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998).

Shaw, Stanford J. Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey’s Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945. (New York: New York University Press, 1993).

Smith, Michael. Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews. (London: Hodder & Stroughten, 1999).

Steinberg, Jonathan. All or nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943. (New York: Routledge, 1990).

Subak, Susan Elizabeth. Rescue & Flight: American Relief Wporkers who Defied the Nazis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Raoul Wallenberg: Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group. (Stockholm, 2000).

Tschuy, Theo. Dangerous Diplomacy. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000).

Vago, Bela. “Political and Diplomatic Activities for the Rescue of the Jews of Northern Transylvania.” Yad Vashem Studies, 6 (1967), pp. 155-174.

Verax [Roberto Ducci]. “Italiani ed ebrei in Jugoslavia,” Politica Estera, I. (Rome, 1944), pp. 21-29.

Wahrhaftig, Zorach. Refugee and Survivor. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1988).

Wallenberg, Raoul, translated by Kjersti Board. Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944. (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995).

Wyman, David S. (Ed.). The World Reacts to the Holocaust. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Yahil, Leni. The Rescue of Danish Jewry: Test of a Democracy. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969).

Yahil, L. “Scandinavian Countries to the Rescue of Concentration Camp Prisoners.” Yad Vashem Studies, 6 (1967), pp. 181-220.

The Jews of Czechoslovakia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968).