Non­fic­tion

A Force for Good: Gisela War­burg Wyzanski

  • From the Publisher
September 1, 2025

A Force for Good is the com­pelling biog­ra­phy of Gisela War­burg Wyzan­s­ki, a Woman of Val­or. Gisela worked with her men­tors, Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, the founder of Hadas­sah, and Chaim Weiz­mann, Israel’s first pres­i­dent, to res­cue and reset­tle thou­sands of East­ern Euro­pean chil­dren ear­marked for anni­hi­la­tion at the hands of the Nazis. This inspir­ing sto­ry is told through a trea­sure trove of let­ters and doc­u­ments care­ful­ly pre­served by Gisela and recent­ly dis­cov­ered by her daugh­ter, Ani­ta Wyzan­s­ki Rob­boy, the book’s author. Read­ers will trav­el with Gisela through Ger­many, Eng­land, the Unit­ed States, and the land now known as Israel as she raised aware­ness and fund­ing for her exhaus­tive efforts to save a gen­er­a­tion of Jews. They will learn about both the hor­rors of the Holo­caust, and the tremen­dous pow­er of one per­son to make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of oth­ers for gen­er­a­tions to come.

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