Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism Rifka’s personal struggles and dilemmas

Rifka’s personal struggles and dilemmas go to the heart of the major ethical issues and challenges of our times

the novel feels simultaneously ancient

But nothing is inside it now

a cultural melting pot of cuisines and inhabitants

little-known heroes who saved countless lives during the Holocaust

Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism Rifka’s personal struggles and dilemmasIn 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