‘I cannot allow these people to die’: Saving Jews in World War II
The title of Richard Hurowitz’s tremendously moving new book “In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust” refers to a real place. It’s located on the Avenue of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem. The garden, first planted in 1962, honors with a tree each person who worked to save Jewish lives during World War II – and as Hurowitz writes, “the garden is verdant with
