Lies that matter : a federal prosecutor and child of Holocaust survivors, tasked with stripping US citizenship from aged Nazi collaborators, finds himself caught in the middle / by Allan Gerson.
Publisher:
New Academia Publishing/Vellum Books,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xi, 222 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Foreword / by Wolf Blitzer -- Introduction : tormentors, victims, and the lies that enabled entry into post-war America -- A most unusual offer -- Zamosc : Poland's urban gem, my ancestral home -- Rockler, Rostow, Talleyrand and "zeal" -- Pawns in a transcontinental struggle -- Rockler's mind : mired in the past -- Surviving the war -- Miami chills -- The remnant -- A calculus of evil -- Never forget, never forgive -- Leap of faith -- True identity -- Trial and consequences -- Civiletti's argument -- Like actors on a stage -- Fedorenko's verdict -- Till the ends of justice -- Epilogue : encountering history.
Summary:
"Allan Gerson tells the gripping story of his two years at the Department of Justice office charged with investigating and deporting aging Nazis living quietly in our midst. His interrogation of suspected perpetrators forces him to uncover secrets of his family and other anguished victims that he never wanted to know... this narrative reads like a bildungsroman, a coming of age story of a lawyer who went on to seek American legal remedies for historic crimes and injustices committed elsewhere. Samuel Norich"--Back cover.
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