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$34.95, 6 x 9 in, hardcover, 384 pages, 69 b/w photos
ISBN: 978-1-963714-08-1
Publication date: March 3, 2026
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A Force For Good:
Gisela Warburg Wyzanski
by Anita Wyzanski Robboy
A Force For Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis. This compelling 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. It outlines Gisela’s tireless efforts to rescue European children, place them in appropriate settings in their parentless journey to new lives in the land now known as Israel.
Readers will travel with Gisela through Germany, Palestine, England, and the United States, and will meet her mentors — some of the most powerful and influential Jewish leaders of this historically significant pre-WWII to post-WWII era. They will learn about both the horrors of the Holocaust and the tremendous power of one determined and courageous person to make a difference in the world.
Readers’ Comments
“This inspiring, revelatory biography, based on newly discovered letters, restores Gisela Warburg Wyzanski to her rightful place in 20th century Jewish history. It shows how a young woman of privileged birth, mentored by Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, risked her life to save Jewish refugee children, crisscrossed the United States raising funds to sustain them, and lived a life of service to others. Along the way, she found love, marrying one of Boston’s most eminent jurists. A rare and unusually intimate portrait of an unforgettable Jewish woman.”
—Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
“Brimming with fresh perspectives on Judaism, Zionism, and Palestine, this page-turning saga leaps off the page from a cache of love letters hidden in a Cambridge attic to draw the reader into a romantic triangle involving a famous American judge and the daughter of one of Germany’s wealthiest Jewish families, a woman who escaped the Gestapo to devote her life to the rescue of desperate children.”
—Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
About the Author
Anita Wyzanski Robboy is a noted author, lawyer, and research scholar. The daughter of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski and Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, she is a partner in the Boston law firm, Prince Lobel & Tye, LLC, and a Visiting Scholar/Research Associate at Brandeis University. A Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University from 1998-2000, Robboy holds degrees from Boston University (J.D.), Tufts University (M. Ed.), and Swarthmore College (BA). She authored Aftermarriage, the Myth of Divorce (2001), and her writings include “Lewis Hayden: From Fugitive Slave to Statesman”, and numerous articles in legal publications. She is the daughter of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski and Judge Charles E. Wyzanski.
