Resistance - How Jews Christians Fought Against Nazis Became Heroes of Holocaust

Zusatztext a rare form of resistance finally gaining the attention in Holocaust scholarship it has always deserved. Informationen zum Autor Nechama Tec is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Conneticut, Stamford, and the bestselling author of Defiance, now a major motion picture. Her other books include Dry Tears, In the Lion's Den, and When Light Pierced the Darkness. Klappentext Looks at how Jews and Christians fought back against the Nazis during the Second World War. Based on first-hand interviews and extensive research, this is a dramatic and highly readable narrative account. Zusammenfassung In this careful study of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance during World War II, Holocaust scholar Tec Nechama argues that Jews were not passive or submissive in the face of German oppression, but that their efforts had different aims and expressions than those of their non-Jewish counterparts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: "At the Edge of Nowhere." Chapter One: Background Chapter Two: In the Ghettos Chapter Three: Partisans and Forests Chapter Four: Concentration Camps Chapter Five: Couriers Chapter Six: The Special Case of Jan Karski Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Nechama Tec, Nechama (Professor Emerita of Sociology Tec
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.06.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199735419
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973541-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Judenverfolgung, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Widerstand (politisch)