The Secret Mission to Save Europe’s Jews, with Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and columnist at The Free Press. He joins the show to discuss his latest book, Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe. Whom were the Zionist Jews fighting on behalf of the British during World War II? What happened to the legendary Zionist figure Hannah Senesh? And how did a war story without battlefield success help give birth to a nation?
01:45 - The scene in British Mandate Palestine
07:30 - British MI9 unit
07:38 - Jewish military units
08:41 - Rescue missions into Europe
14:21 - Secret meeting in Tel Aviv
17:29 - Palestinian Jews’…
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