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In the lion's den the life of Oswald Rufeisen

Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust that that of teenage Polish Jew, Oswald Rufeisen. Fluent in German, Rufeisen became a translator for the Nazi gendamerie, using his position to pass secret information about impending 'aktions'. When denounced, he was smuggled into a Carmelite convent by his sympathetic German commander, and later fought as a Soviet partisan. He converted to Catholicism and became a priest, but the now Father Daniel still insisted on the automatic Israeli citizenship granted to Jews, and fought for his right throughout the 1960s. This stirring biography also reflects the intricate connections between good and evil, cruelty and compassion, and tolerance and prejudice in this critical era of Jewish history.

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  • "Parašat ḥayyaw šel ʼWswwald Rwpʼayyzen"
  • "life of Oswald Rufeisen"

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  • "Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust that that of teenage Polish Jew, Oswald Rufeisen. Fluent in German, Rufeisen became a translator for the Nazi gendamerie, using his position to pass secret information about impending 'aktions'. When denounced, he was smuggled into a Carmelite convent by his sympathetic German commander, and later fought as a Soviet partisan. He converted to Catholicism and became a priest, but the now Father Daniel still insisted on the automatic Israeli citizenship granted to Jews, and fought for his right throughout the 1960s. This stirring biography also reflects the intricate connections between good and evil, cruelty and compassion, and tolerance and prejudice in this critical era of Jewish history."@en
  • "Oswald Rufeisen (1922-1998) ou père Daniel, juif d'origine polonaise, fut résistant pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il se convertit après la guerre à la religion catholique et devint prêtre dans l'ordre du Carmel. Vivant en Israël, il y rassembla des chrétiens de langue hébraïque."
  • "A moving biography of Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew who passed as a Christian in occupied Poland, worked as a translator for the German police, and risked his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. Denounced, he escaped and found shelter in a convent, where he became a Catholic and later a priest and monk."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biografie"@pl

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  • "In the lion's den the life of Oswald Rufeisen"@en
  • "In the lion's den the life of Oswald Rufeisen"
  • "Dans la fosse aux lions : la vie d'Oswald Rufeisen / Nechama Tec ; traduit de l'américain par Cécile Le Paire"
  • "Bgwb haʼaraywt : parašat ḥayyaw šel ʼWswwald Rwpʼayyzen"
  • "In the lion's den : the life of Oswald Rufeisen"@pl
  • "In the lion's den : the life of Oswald Rufeisen"
  • "Dans la fosse aux lions : la vie d'Oswald Rufeisen"

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