Never Despair ― Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People And the Cause of Human Rights

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book recounts the longtime efforts of Dr. Riegner (1911-2001) on behalf of Jewish-Christian relations and international human rights. Born into a German-Jewish family, he recounts his flight to Switzerland to escape the Nazis and his involvement there with the World Jewish Congress. What came to be known as the "Riegner telegram" (1942) was the first official notice in the West of the "final solution." Translated from the 1998 French Les Éditions du Cerf. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gerhart M. Riegner (1911-2001) worked tirelessly during his lifetime for international human rights and held a central role in Christian-Jewish relations-all likely extensions of his early involvement in the Holocaust, to which he was so close.