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Title Holocaust resistance in Europe and America : new aspects and dilemmas / edited by Victoria Khiterer with Abigail S Gruber
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Do the Words Matter?; Chapter Two; Why They Fought; Chapter Three; Strategies for Jewish Survival in Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps; The Keeper of Words; Four Women; The Realm Outside Operation T4; Chapter Four; Traumatic Memory and the Nature of Commemoration in Contemporary Germany; Memorialization of the Holocaust in Minsk and Kiev; Chapter Five; Grossman's Resistance; Resistance and Representation in Alfred Radok's "Daleka cesta" (Distant Journey)
Summary This book brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms: armed and passive resistance, uprisings in ghettos and concentration camps, partisan and underground movements, the rescue of Jews, spiritual resistance, and preservation of Jewish artifacts and memories. Jewish resistance to the Holocaust faced numerous obstacles and difficulties. In many cases, resistance fighters risked not only their own lives, but also the lives of others. As such, there was a serious dilemma over whether to resist and over what methods of resistan
Notes 'This volume includes selected presentations from the 2014 Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide."--Page ix
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe -- Congresses
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- America -- Congresses
History.
Cultural studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
America
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Khiterer, Viktorii︠a︡, editor
Gruber, Abigail S., editor
ISBN 9781443878562
1443878561