StartGroepenDiscussieMeerTijdgeest
Doorzoek de site
Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.

Resultaten uit Google Boeken

Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.

Bezig met laden...

Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

door Michael Smith

LedenBesprekingenPopulariteitGemiddelde beoordelingDiscussies
623420,350 (3.83)Geen
Frank Foley worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin during World War II and help thousands of Jews escape from Germany. His post at the Passport Office was a front for is role as MI6 head of station. Despite having no diplomatic immunity, and risking arrest at any time, he went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his home and helped them get forged passports. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the holocaust. This book uncovers the story of an unknown British war hero and his tale of bravey.… (meer)
Geen
Bezig met laden...

Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden.

Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.

Toon 3 van 3
Good book about one of the best British spies in WWII. A little dull and dry but good history. ( )
  ikeman100 | Jan 23, 2021 |
Born in 1884 to a Catholic couple in Highbridge, a town in Somerset, Smith early on decided he wanted to study to be a priest. His rail worker father thought it was a waste of a bright mind. Fighting in the Great War made him question his faith.

After the war, he joined the secret service and eventually ended up in Berlin disguised as a Passport Control Officer while he real task was to set up a spy ring that gathered intelligence on the Nazis. As a man with a kind heart, he could not ignore the plight of Jews and other dissidents and used his power to grant visas to whisk both out of the country to safety often against British Government policy. Sending Jews to Palestine was one of these polices he broke regularly.

Once the war started, he went to Norway to set up a similar spy system and used Norway's proximity to Germany to obtain info from his German sources which was often ignored by his government & military leaders. Once Norway fell to Germany, he went home to England where one of his first duties was monitor the Nazi Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolph Hess. Once he realize Hess was insane, he found that job a bore. After the war he ended up in Germany tracking down war criminals.

A nice man which apparently was rare in the intelligence service, he retired into a quiet life. He never receive the accolades he deserved from Israel partly because many of the Jews he rescued did not know he had organized it.

I am always fascinated by books that describe what it was like to live in Germany during the reign of the Nazis This book clearly paints that picture. ( )
  lamour | Dec 8, 2017 |
Toon 3 van 3
geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Je moet ingelogd zijn om Algemene Kennis te mogen bewerken.
Voor meer hulp zie de helppagina Algemene Kennis .
Gangbare titel
Oorspronkelijke titel
Alternatieve titels
Oorspronkelijk jaar van uitgave
Mensen/Personages
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke plaatsen
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke gebeurtenissen
Verwante films
Motto
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Ontwarringsbericht
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Oorspronkelijke taal
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC

Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen.

Wikipedia in het Engels

Geen

Frank Foley worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin during World War II and help thousands of Jews escape from Germany. His post at the Passport Office was a front for is role as MI6 head of station. Despite having no diplomatic immunity, and risking arrest at any time, he went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his home and helped them get forged passports. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the holocaust. This book uncovers the story of an unknown British war hero and his tale of bravey.

Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.

Boekbeschrijving
Haiku samenvatting

Actuele discussies

Geen

Populaire omslagen

Snelkoppelingen

Waardering

Gemiddelde: (3.83)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5 1
4 2
4.5
5

Ben jij dit?

Word een LibraryThing Auteur.

 

Over | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Voorwaarden | Help/Veelgestelde vragen | Blog | Winkel | APIs | TinyCat | Nagelaten Bibliotheken | Vroege Recensenten | Algemene kennis | 203,240,754 boeken! | Bovenbalk: Altijd zichtbaar