Reseña del libro "Ángeles de Praga / Angels of Prague"
Un grupo de mujeres.
El valor de desafiar al nazismo.
Miles de vidas en juego
Octubre de 1938. Europa está al borde de la guerra. Mientras Alemania se prepara para ocupar parte de Checoslovaquia, miles de refugiados llegan a Praga huyendo del nazismo: familias judías y opositores políticos que saben que quedarse puede significar la persecución, el encierro o la muerte.
En medio del caos, Doreen Warriner, una académica británica radicada en Praga, decide actuar y forma una red clandestina de mujeres dispuestas a desafiar al régimen nazi. Juntas inician una de las operaciones de rescate más audaces y menos conocidas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Durante diez meses, logran evacuar a quince mil personas, hasta que el estallido de la guerra las obliga a detenerse.
Pero la Gestapo les sigue el rastro. Warriner debe huir para salvar su vida, y Martha Sharp, una valiente estadounidense, toma el relevo para continuar la misión.
Basado en diarios, cartas y testimonios inéditos, Ángeles de Praga revela una extraordinaria historia real de coraje, inteligencia y resistencia. Un homenaje a las mujeres que, frente al horror del nazismo, eligieron no apartar la mirada y arriesgarlo todo para salvar vidas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The true story of a remarkable group of women who risked everything to save 15,000 refugees from the Nazis on the eve of the Second World War.
“GRIPPING AND AUTHORITATIVE” - Kate Moore
“THRILLING AND DEEPLY MOVING” - Valentine Low
October, 1938. Germany is poised to take over part of Czechoslovakia and thousands of terrified refugees have fled to Prague. A mix of Jews and political opponents of the Nazis, they will be killed if they do not leave the country.
The city is soon overwhelmed with people who have no way out and nowhere else to go. With winter drawing in and supplies scarce, the situation is dire.
Doreen Warriner, a British academic studying in Prague, decides she must help. She rallies a group of women and they begin an underground evacuation operation of such astonishing efficiency that over the next ten months they help 15,000 people escape the Nazis and are only forced to stop when World War II breaks out in September 1939.
At the height of her work, Warriner becomes the Gestapo’s most urgent target and has to flee the country to save her own life. An American, Martha Sharp, takes over leadership of the group for the final months in a desperate and often tragic race against time.
Drawing on previously unpublished diaries, letters and interviews, Angels of Prague is an intimate and gripping account of an extraordinary true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of courageous women who stood tall in the face of unthinkable danger and deserve to be remembered.
