Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
Debórah Dwork, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Long before their country joined the war, American aid workers undertook rescue efforts abroad. Who were these women and men who sought to save lives? Saints and Liars tells their stories and, exploring their experiences, illuminates the moral questions they encountered, the devastating decisions they had to make, and the role of unpredictable and irrational factors on the ground, at a particular moment, in shaping individual fates.
Debórah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center – City University of New York. Pathbreaking in her early oral recording of Holocaust child survivors, Dwork weaves their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include Children With A Star; Flight from the Reich; Auschwitz; and Holocaust. Her most recent work, Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis, was published this year. Dwork is also a leading authority on university education in this field: she envisioned and actualized the first doctoral program specifically in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies. Dwork has received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Achievement Award in Holocaust Studies (2024) from the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Annetje Fels-Kupferschmidt Award (2022) bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, and the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020).
Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Symposium Fund.
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