Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from inside the Third Reich - Hardcover

Leopold, Walter: - "Dr. Walter Leopold was born in 1898 in Ottweiler, Germany, the son of a cantor. Sincere about his Jewish faith but not orthodox, he fought in WWI for the German Imperial Army and received an Iron Cross for bravery in the Macedonia campaigns. After the war he attended Heidelberg University, earning his doctorate with the hope of serving in the new Weimar Republic. Finding his path blocked because of his religion he secured work within the Jewish community becoming the director of the Reichenheim Orphanage in Berlin. There he met his future wife, Hilda Bluemlein, a pediatric nurse and daughter of a prosperous factory owner in Leipzig. In 1930, they relocated to Leipzig where Walter worked in the Gemeinde - the city's semi-autonomous Jewish administration. Although his mother and two brothers emigrated to the United States after the Nazi's took power, Walter, Hilda and their daughter Anneliese, born in 1937, remained in Germany. As an anti-Fascist activist, Walter engaged in resistance activities throughout the war. His battle against the Nazi death machine is the story of this memoir."Leopold, Les: - After graduating from Oberlin College and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975), Les co-founded the Labor Institute (1976), a non-profit organization that designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics for unions, worker centers and community organizations. He is the author of Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice (Labor Institute Press, 2015), How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Financial Elites Get Away with Siphoning off America's Wealth (John Wiley and Sons, 2013); The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009); The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2006). The Mazzocchi story won the Independent Publisher Award for best biography.