Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream

The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother

By: Stanley A. Goldman

Narrated by: Stanley A. Goldman

Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Stanley A. Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend's daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented activities of one man's negotiations with the Nazi's interior minister and SS head, Heinrich Himmler, for the release of the Jewish women from the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. While looking through the pamphlet, the two discovered a picture that could have been their mothers being released from the camp. Wanting to know the details of how they were saved, Goldman set out on a long and difficult path to unravel the mystery.

After years of researching the pamphlet, Goldman learned that a German Jew named Norbert Masur made a treacherous journey from the safety of Sweden back into the war zone in order to secure the release of the Jewish women imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Masur not only succeeded in his mission against all odds but he contributed to the downfall of the Nazi hierarchy itself. This amazing, little-known story uncovers a piece of history about the undermining of the Nazi regime, the women of the Holocaust, and the strained but loving relationship between a survivor and her son.

©2018 Stanley A. Goldman (P)2018 Tantor

Critic reviews

"What a tale! It is not only purposeful but also riveting and enlightening. It's a must-read." (Ashleigh Banfield, host of HLN's Crime and Justice with Ashleigh Banfield)

Always remember

Beautifully written, factual, a son’s love for his mother who endured the worlds worst crimes to human kind is displayed for generations to come. Stanley’s narration of his own book gave it even more depth. I do hope that my grandchildren’s children and so onread this and all survivors/family accounts. Lest it never be forgotten