From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable.

• Introduction


• 1: Years of Innocence


• 2: The Assault


• 3: From Vanguard to Refuge


• 4: The Call to Arms


• 5: Lifelines


• 6: In Plain Sight


• 7: The Test of Total War


• 8: The Endgame


• 9: Our Flock has Grown Lonely


• 10: Beyond Recognition


• Conclusion: The Rescue of History


• Notes


• Index

Mark Roseman was born in London and educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick. After holding various academic posts, including a professorship at the University of Southampton, he moved to the US to take up the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University in 2004. Since 2013 he has been Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. In 2018 he was named Distinguished Professor. He has published widely on modern European history and the Holocaust, and is best known for his books A Past in Hiding (2001) and The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution (2002). He is the recipient of a number of prestigious prizes, including one of Germany's foremost literary prizes, the Geschwister Scholl prize, awarded for the German version of A Past in Hiding.