Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism In 1982 she won a

In 1982 she won a scholarship to the journalism master's program at Columbia University in New York

little-known heroes who saved countless lives during the Holocaust

Replete with photographs

Irris Makler shines a hopeful light on a part of the world where the news reports often makes it seem impossibly dark

Rifka’s personal struggles and dilemmas go to the heart of the major ethical issues and challenges of our times

Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism In 1982 she won aIn the spring of 1944, a group of thirty two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out for Budapest. Tragically, they were