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pp.xxvi 529, b/w illustrations.” In The Righteous, distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert, through extensive interviews, explores the courage of those who throughout Germany and in every occupied country from Norway to Greece, from the Atlantic to the Baltic?took incredible risks to help Jews whose fate would have been sealed without them. Indeed, many lost their lives for their efforts. Those who hid Jews included priests, nurses, teachers, neighbours and friends, employees and colleagues, soldiers and diplomats, and, above all, ordinary citizens. From Greek Orthodox Princess Alice of Greece, who hid Jews in her home in Athens, to the Ukrainian Uniate Archbishop of Lvov, who hid hundreds of Jews in his churches and monasteries, to Muslims in Bosnia and Albania, many risked, and lost, everything to help their fellow man”