Bob Gillette, A Legendary Teacher

The cover of Robert H. Gillette's new book, ìThe Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi Germany,î which chronicles the efforts of William B. Thalhimer, an American department store owner, to bring two dozen young Jewish students from Germany to a Virginia farm in the 1930s. Photo: German businessman Oskar Schindler is known the world over as an unlikely humanitarian, who turned his factory into a refuge for about 1,100 Jews, sparing those on his famed list from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.