Jagendorf's Foundry

In the early 1940s Romania exiled 150,000 Jews to Transnistria. There Jagendorf, a failed Jewish entrepreneur, convinced the Nazis to let him convert a abandoned spare-parts factory into a Jewish labor colony. Outmaneuvering Romanian officials, he saved some 15,000 Jews from extermination. This document consists of Jagendorf's first-person narrative intertwined with commentary by Hirt-Manheimer, who spent two years interviewing survivors and analyzing primary sources.

209 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: a tear to jacket, foxing on edges.

The representative of the Jewish community of Radauti stood before the prefect as he announced the latest anti-Semitic decree: "All Jews must leave this city and relinquish their money, jewles, and securities to the National Bank. They may pack as much as they can carry, but no more than forty pounds.