The Search for Major Plagge, The Nazi Who Saved Jews. 

Part detective story, part personal quest, Dr. Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilna ghetto - including the life of Good's mother, Pearl.  Who was this enigmatic office Pearl Goode 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 a “Righteous among Nations,” honored by the State of Israel for protecting and saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

In person at WES.  Signed copies of the book will be available for $20 each after the talk (cash preferred).

This talk will also be livestreamed on Zoom.  If you can't make it in person, please join us on Zoom. (For the Zoom link, please contact admin [at] westendsynagogue.org (Joan) for the zoom link, or check your weekly e-newsletter or email reminder notices from WES.)