My Brother's Keeper

Heartbreaking, inspiring, frustrating, encouraging…This is one of those books that is difficult to rate. It’s hard to read and harder to put down. The incredibly heroic and self-sacrificing acts of so many under those circumstances are amazing and deserve a high rating, and the eternal impact some of them had deserves even a higher rating, but so much heartache...
This would be a very good book to use as an introduction to both WW2 and the Holocaust. Each rescuer’s story is interwoven with the particular segment of WW2 that most directly affected them. For example, the stories of the Kindertransport rescuers are told along with the history of the fall of Austria and Czechoslovakia. If you are very familiar with the history of the war, it may move a little slowly, but it’s still worth reading.
The only problem I had was with the marketing. It is Christian in the broadest sense of the word. While many of the stories are about born-again believers, there are many others about Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, and self-professed nominal Christians. There was one story that came across that maybe the author was making more of his church affiliation than he did. The faith of those that were born-again is shared in a little more detail than the others, but that’s the only difference I see from many secular collections.
The most heartening thing about the whole book is reading that not only were some of the Jews saved from death in the Holocaust but saved also from sin and eternal death by faith in Jesus Christ as their Messiah. That is the reason this book has such a high rating. It has the joy of eternal life in its pages.
Thanks to NetGalley and FaithWords / Center Street for the free ARC to review.

This book highlights the lives of 30 Righteous Gentiles who are recognized by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
What an amazing book - you will learn about individuals who risked not only their own, but their families lives to save Jewish people they barely knew, who then became members of their family.
Whole towns, such as Le Chambon in France took in Jewish families and disguised them as townspeople and risked their own lives to save them! Children saved other children by feeding and befriending them. An American Army officer even claimed that his whole regiment was Jewish and saved all of their lives!
You will encounter heroism, humbleness and love for one's fellow human being, and you will desire to emulate these people who risked their own lives to save strangers who were being persecuted by those who were ordered to hate and persecute those whose only crime was to be a child of Abraham.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Holocaust. It is a series of short stories about the people who risked their lives in order to save Jews. Very well written and informative. I did not find any factual errors.

In the book My Brother’s Keeper, author Rod Gragg introduces us to Christians from all walks of life that sacrificed to save Jews during the Holocaust. Each one of these Christians were honored by the nation of Israel as “The Righteous Among the Nations.”
I would highly recommend this book. The stories of people living out their Christian faith to save the lives of Jews are incredible and very inspiring. I received a copy of this e-book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a wonderful autobiography. This author really made the story come alive as he relived the most harrowing experiences of his life. Thank you! I highly recommend.

My Brother's Keeper by Rod Gragg is a powerful, moving book about ordinary people who did extraordinary acts of bravery to help the Jewish nation caught up in Europe as the Nazi's marched and implemented the Final Solution. My Brother's Keeper is thirty stories of people honoured by the State Of Israel as the Righteous Among The Nations. These people shone as lights in a darkened Europe as they helped God's children.
The people came from all walks of life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor - united by their compassion for a persecuted people. Dr Feng Shan Ho said "I thought it was only natural to feel compassion." He personally saved the lives of over twelve thousand.
I had heard of some of the people - Frank Foley, the ten Booms, Princess Alice and Nicholas Winton with his kindertransport. Nicholas Winton believed "there is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness." In just a few months he saved six hundred and sixty eight children before the war began.
The other stories were all unknown to me but were all amazingly brave Christians. Their faith propelled them to action with no thought for their own safety. Otto and Gertrud Morike "believed their faith in Jesus... compelled them to resist Nazi tyranny and its persecution of the Jews."
The Danes as a nation were incredible. They stood together to resist the Nazis and as a result ninety five per cent of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust.
Some of the brave men and women paid with their lives - imprisoned, executed, inmates of the concentration camps. They believed in obeying God in the face of extreme evil. They saw no distinction between people. They are all God's children.
Within each chapter there is much detail about the war as well as the individual stories. My Brother's Keeper is not an easy book to read. Hitler and his evil regime beggars belief but the extraordinary acts of bravery will take your breath away.
We owe it to the six million who perished to continue to tell their stories. We need to keep their memory alive. We need to tell the subsequent generations so they did not perish only to be forgotten and consigned to history.
"Whoever saves a life, it is as if he saved an entire world."
May we never forget.
I received this book for free. A favourable review was not required and all views expressed are my own.

I highly recommend My Brother's Keeper by Rod Gragg! I cry when reading this book, their powerful stories very disturbing but inspiring at the same time. They risked their own live to protect and save Jewish people from Nazis. Once I began reading, their stories make this book hard to put down until I have finished it completely. Very well written, and well worth reading.
A copy of this ebook was generously provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.