Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews

Triumph Over Tyranny is the most complete account to date of the remarkable stories of courageous people to change the policies of a totalitarian regime. It is a panorama of the history of the international Soviet Jewry movement and the fight for human rights in the former Soviet Union. This is the first book in English to reveal some of the clandestine activities of the Chabad movement to keep Judaism alive in the Soviet Union during the regimes of Stalin and Khrushchev. It discloses the dramatic story of the Israeli government's secret missions to contact and aid Soviet Jews in their quest to emigrate from an oppressive regime and live as Jews in Israel. Quoting from newly translated KGB documents, the book shows how leaders in the Kremlin rationalized their brutal and repressive actions. Motivated by their realization that European Jews had been abandoned to suffer the horrors of the Holocaust, the activists in the U.S.S.R. and abroad were determined to give meaning to the slogan "Never Again!" They waged successful campaigns to save their brethren, the Jews of the Soviet Union who courageously refused to be victims.

Publisher:

Devora Publishing

Pages:

551

Date Published:

2008-10-15