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This book is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the "Second Generation" and "Third Generation" of Holocaust offspring. Each essay traces the author's path to a research profession, focusing on the influence of their family's Holocaust background at various crossroads of their life.

Cover -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Belgium -- A Closer Look at Jewish Resistance Members in Occupied Belgium -- Introduction -- Unsung Heroes -- Women of Professional Background and Political Activists -- The Jewish Armed Partisans -- Personal Valour without a Flag -- Aftermath -- From Insubordination to Resistance in the SS-Sammellager für Juden in Belgium -- Remaining a Jew -- Ordinary Resistance -- Clandestine Correspondence -- Sabotage -- Violence -- Organizing Escapes -- Transport XX -- Escaping from the Hospital in Mechelen -- Escaping from the SS Training Camp in Schoten31 -- Escaping from the SS-Sammellager? -- Conclusion -- Jewish Double Agents in Belgium: CDJ (Jewish Defense Committee) Employees within the Jewish Council -- Creating a Hiding Network -- Cross-Fertilization on Every Level -- The Disputed Presence of Double Agents -- Colored Historiography -- Double Agents under Fire -- Changing Image of CDJ and AJB -- Conclusion -- Jewish Civil Resistance and the Slow Emergence of the Memory of the Holocaust in Belgium -- Introduction -- The Time of Amnesia -- Internal Jewish Fights -- The Netherlands -- Hiding in Plain Sight: Gender, Faith, and the Conflicted Legacies of a Dutch Rescuer1 -- Introduction -- Jewish Women as Rescuers -- Background and Motivation to Rescue -- War, Rescue, and Resistance -- Religious Identity and Legacy -- Conclusion -- "Even if We'll Lose" - Jews Saving Jews in the Netherlands -- Introduction -- Disobedience -- Jewish Council Workers -- Oosteinde Group -- Palestine Pioneers -- Summary -- The Palestine Pioneers and the Westerweel Group -- The Paviljoen in Loosdrecht -- A Born Rebel -- The Group's Origins -- The Hiding Operation -- Their Own Way -- Reinforcements and New Ways -- Betrayal in Rotterdam -- To Spain -- Escape from Westerbork.

"Frieda Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the Untied States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. It describes how she and a whole immigrant generation survived that Depression, sent their children off to fight for America during the Second World War while worrying about what was happening to the families that they had left back in Europe. It takes the story further, describing what happened to her European family and how she was reunited with her surviving siblings after the war. The book continues for almost a half century after the end of the war, portraying the "Golden Years" of those former immigrants through their retirement and until the final years of their lives."--Page 4 of cover

"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"--