Who Shall Live: The Wilhelm Bachner Story

Bachner, a Polish Jew, was trapped in Warsaw when the Germans overran the country in September, 1939. He, his wife, and his parents moved into the Warsaw ghetto. Speaking fluent German and possessing an engineering degree from a German university, Bachner posed as an Aryan and was eventually able to get a job heading a crew of construction workers. He hired dozens of Polish Jews and supplied them with false identity papers, thus saving them from death.

The authors interviewed Bachner in 1983, along with the Jews Bachner saved and their families. Their book adds to a growing body of evidence that refutes the idea that Jews went to their deaths without resistance.