Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights » (Translatio)

This is an essential book for students of the Holocaust and of the Jewish role in world affairs from World War II to the end of the century. There were many important and fascinating episodes in Riegner's life of service, told now in Never Despair, his memoir. He recounts his youth in a cultivated, middle-class Jewish family in Germany, and as a young lawyer in Leipzig who fled to Switzerland after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In his memoir he recounts his efforts behind the scenes and offers a firsthand estimate of many of the leading international figures of the past century.

The Midwest Book Review

Any interested in Jewish history in general will find Never Despair to be essential reading.