Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism the novel feels simultaneously ancient

the novel feels simultaneously ancient

But nothing is inside it now

and memoirs—the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation

Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about 160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labour

a cultural melting pot of cuisines and inhabitants

Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism the novel feels simultaneously ancientIn the spring of 1944, a group of thirty two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out for Budapest. Tragically, they were