The Road to Rescue

“A deepening of the story … Pemper argues that the ‘crucial accomplishment’ was not the list itself but ‘the multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible’ … Pemper devotes most of his carefully written book to the numerous small initiatives that, in his telling, played a part in the rescue effort.” —The New York Times Book Review “A former inmate of the concentration camp that provided slave labor to Oskar Schindler’s factory informatively recounts the compilation of the businessman’s famous list … Compelling.” —Booklist “Pemper’s memoir is the powerful story of one man’s stand against the slaughter of Jews.” —Kirkus Reviews “Suspenseful … Pemper’s book is careful and sad, telling of both triumph and the inability to get over the grief.” —Publishers Weekly

Mietek Pemper was born in Krakow in 1920. He studied law and economics, and, after 1945, sociology at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. Between completing his master’s degree and leaving in 1958, he held a leading position in the office for auditing state-owned companies. He now lives in Augsburg, Germany.

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