A major New York City airport is named in honor of her brother, but Gemma La Guardia Gluck’s story of surviving Ravensbrück concentration camp as the political prisoner of Adolf Eichmann unjustly exists in the shadows of history.
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Excerpted // Rescue or Death?
“The prisoners could be forgiven for looking with fear upon the buses that arrived at the concentration camps in the … More
When Sweden Rescued 31,000 Non-Swedes from Nazi Germany
In spring 1945, Sweden did something incredible. It voluntarily sent an expedition into Nazi Germany to rescue prisoners from concentration camps and bring them to Sweden. Not a single Swede was among the 31,000 individuals they rescued. This is the story of the White Buses.
A Bit of History 