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Es gab auch Gerechte: Retter und Rettung jüdischen Lebens im deutschbesetzten Europa 1939 - 1945
In: Edition Shoáh & Judaica
In: 4, Gedenkschriften zur Schoáh
Women defying Hitler: rescue and resistance under the Nazis
"This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices being empowered in this book are clear examples of the importance of protest by women in forcing a totalitarian regime to pause and reconsider its options for the moment. In revealing so, Women Defying Hitler ultimately foregrounds that women rescuers and resisters were and are of great continuing consequence"--
The rescue of Jews in France and its empire during World War II: history and memory
In: French politics, culture and society, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 1-175
ISSN: 1537-6370, 0882-1267
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