Elsie Kuhn-Leitz came from one of the wealthiest families in Germany. She risked everything to help those who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Hers is an inspiring story of courage and self-sacrifice in a time of great adversity. The book includes an introduction from the great photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, who was a personal friend of Elsie and her family and who used to enjoy their hospitality.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Frank Dabba Smith was born in California. He studied Linguistic Anthropology at Berkeley (BA Hons) and qualified as a teacher. He was ordained as a rabbi at Leo Baeck College, London, in 1994. Mendel Grossman was born in Lodz in 1917. After the occupation of Poland by the German Army in September 1939, he joined the underground in the town. Forced to live in the Lodz ghetto he used his position in the statistics department to obtain the material needed to take photographs. By hiding his camera in his raincoat, Grossman was able to take secret photographs of scenes in the ghetto.