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August 3, 2022

How Two British Opera Buffs Spent the War Years Rescuing Jews from the Nazis

Frugal, modest civil servants, neither worldly nor political—but willing to take risks.

The sisters Ida and Louise Cook worked for most of their lives as typists for the English government, although Ida also became a successful author of romance novels. Unmarried, the Cooks shared an apartment as well as tremendous enthusiasm for opera. It was that passion that would lead to their remarkable wartime exploits, which are the subject of a recent book by Isabel Vincent. Phyllis Chesler writes in her review:

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