The Search for Major Plagge, Michael Good
The Search for Major Plagge, Michael Good
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The Search for Major Plagge
The Nazi Who Saved Jews

Author: Michael Good

Narrator: James Romick

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/29/2022

Synopsis

Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?

After five years of research—interviewing 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 man's 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 Plagge—especially the story of eighty-three-year-old Alfons von Deschwanden, who, after fifty years of silence, came forward as a veteran of Plagge's unit. His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth.

Contains mature themes.

About Michael Good

Michael Good has appeared on C-SPAN, as a speaker in Israel and Germany, and in schools, libraries, churches, and synagogues across the United States. Plagge's story was tracked by media around the world and can also be explored at searchformajorplagge.com. Good, a physician, continues to follow and develop the Plagge story from his home in Durham, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nina on August 12, 2013

I am not sure when if ever a book has impacted me so much. I was moved with joy and love to tears for my fellow human beings by this book. The author, Michael Good, of this book who was born in the US in the 1950's, listening to his mother and grandfather stories of being Jews from Vilna (then Polan......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 22, 2012

This was an impulse buy as a Kindle Daily Deal and I'm so glad I got it. It was super interesting and really easy to read. I was expecting a 'history' book (a la 'Schindler's List') and instead I got a book by a man whose mother had been personally a part of the group of Jews that Major Plagge had s......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on October 25, 2022

Michael Good's book gave me some insights expected and unexpected: that there were those who were part of the Nazi war machine who opposed and resisted the effort to eradicate the Jewish population was not new to me. What was new was the fact that this took place in the Wehrmacht and effectively inc......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 12, 2022

I've recently read a few books on the holocaust and turned to this one to get a different perspective. It is amazing to read a positive story from the unrelenting horror that killed millions, but this book manages that feat. Besides the story of Major Plagge, the bigger and more redemptive story is......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 19, 2020

This is a very powerful book and contains things that are so hard to read and then try to comprehend that humans (and I use that term loosely) could do these things. It is amazing that the survivors could find the good in anything after all that they endured. But they do, and the fact that their son......more

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