"Saving one person saves the world"
Igal Avidan gave a captivating and exciting reading from his latest book "Mod Helmy - How an Arab doctor in Berlin saved Jews from the Gestapo" - The true story of the "Arab Schindler"
The author and journalist Igal Avidan came to Landau on January 30 at the invitation of the Rhetoric focus, the Human Rights Education focus at Department 6 and the Peace Academy to present his latest book. In vivid stories, Igal Avidan took the audience back to the time before and during the Second World War and traced the unique story of Mod (Mohamed) Helmy. While most people in Nazi Germany reacted indifferently to the persecution of Jews, the doctor Mod Helmy helped a Jewish family to hide from the Gestapo for years, while he himself was discriminated against by the National Socialists as a "non-Aryan". In the middle of Berlin, with the help of Hitler's intimate friend, the Mufti of Jerusalem, he even managed to bring a Jewish woman to safety as a Muslim.
About the author
lgal Avidan, born in Tel Aviv in 1962, studied English literature and informatics in Israel and then political science in Berlin. Since 1990, the Middle East expert has been working as a freelance reporter from Berlin for Israeli and German newspapers and radio stations.
"Saving one person saves the world"
Igal Avidan gave a captivating and exciting reading from his latest book "Mod Helmy - How an Arab doctor in Berlin saved Jews from the Gestapo" - The true story of the "Arab Schindler"
The author and journalist Igal Avidan came to Landau on January 30 at the invitation of the Rhetoric focus, the Human Rights Education focus at Department 6 and the Peace Academy to present his latest book. In vivid stories, Igal Avidan took the audience back to the time before and during the Second World War and traced the unique story of Mod (Mohamed) Helmy. While most people in Nazi Germany reacted indifferently to the persecution of Jews, the doctor Mod Helmy helped a Jewish family to hide from the Gestapo for years, while he himself was discriminated against by the National Socialists as a "non-Aryan". In the middle of Berlin, with the help of Hitler's intimate friend, the Mufti of Jerusalem, he even managed to bring a Jewish woman to safety as a Muslim.
About the author
lgal Avidan, born in Tel Aviv in 1962, studied English literature and informatics in Israel and then political science in Berlin. Since 1990, the Middle East expert has been working as a freelance reporter from Berlin for Israeli and German newspapers and radio stations.