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Long before their country joined the war, American aid workers undertook rescue efforts abroad. Saints and Liars unearths the story of rescue workers in five key cities as the situation on the ground grew increasingly dire. Who were these women and men who sought to save lives? What did they accomplish, and how did they manage these feats? Saints and Liars tells their stories and, exploring their experiences, illuminates the moral questions they encountered, the devastating decisions they had to make, and the role of unpredictable and irrational factors on the ground, at a particular moment, in shaping individual fates.
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Meet the Author
Deb¨®rah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center¡ªCUNY. Internationally renowned for her scholarship on Holocaust history, she is also a leading authority on university education in this field. As the inaugural Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, she changed the academic landscape, envisioning and actualizing doctoral training in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies.