Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Contents |
Introduction Chapter 1. Deportations from Western Europe; Chapter 2. Escapes by Jews from deportation trains in France; Chapter 3. Escapes by Jews from deportation trains in Belgium; Chapter 4. Escapes by Jews from deportation trains in the Netherlands; Chapter 5. Summary Concluding observations Appendix; Sources and bibliography |
Summary |
Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps. In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands alone over 750 men, women and children undertook such dramatic escape attempts, despite the extraordinary uncertainty and physical danger they often faced. Drawing upon extensive interviews and a wealth of new historical evidence, Escapees gives a fascinating collective account of this hitherto neglected form of resistance to Nazi persecution |
Analysis |
Holocaust, Jewish History, Jewish Studies, European History, Mobility Studies, Belgium, France, Netherlands |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2019) |
Subject |
Holocaust survivors -- France
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Holocaust survivors -- Belgium
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Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands
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Jewish refugees -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Jewish refugees -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century
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Jewish refugees -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Holocaust survivors
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Jewish refugees
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Belgium
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France
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Netherlands
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781785338861 |
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1785338862 |
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9781785338878 |
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1785338870 |
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