Left to the mercy of a rude stream: the bargain that broke Adolf Hitler and saved my mother

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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... PrefacePart I: Malka's WarChapter 1: Left to the Mercy of a Rude StreamChapter 2: "Salvation Through Labor"Chapter 3: A Minor Clerical ErrorChapter 4: A Fuhrer of IndustryChapter 5: The Children of LuckPart II: The Jew Who Met Himmler Chapter 6: The Last Party of the Third ReichChapter 7: Meeting HimmlerChapter 8: Appointment with the ExecutionerChapter 9: Trading for Jewish LivesChapter 10: A True BelieverChapter 11: The Buses Were WhiteChapter 12: Time Brings on All RevengesPart II: Living with Survival Chapter 13: There Was No ReturningChapter 14: MemoryChapter 15: The Last ChapterPostscriptAcknowledgementsNotesBibliography