Description
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule. The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to different degrees, in Germany, in Axis states and all across Nazi-occupied Europe, from the early stages of persecution until the war’s end, in the framework of collaborative efforts and individual initiatives. The Jews who rescued other Jews during the Holocaust came like their non-Jewish counterparts from different backgrounds: men and women, old and young, religious and secular, wealthy and poor, educated and uneducated. The rescue missions took place in ghettos, areas without ghettos, jails, camps, hospitals, children’s homes, schools, monasteries, in hiding. This book focuses on these rescue missions and the people behind them, reminding us of their courage and willingness to act, even when it put their own lives in danger.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Belgium
A Closer Look at Jewish Resistance Members in Occupied Belgium
From Insubordination to Resistance in the SS- Sammellager für Juden in Belgium
Jewish Double Agents in Belgium: CDJ (Jewish Defense Committee) Employees within the Jewish Council
Jewish Civil Resistance and the Slow Emergence of the Memory of the Holocaust in Belgium
The Netherlands
Hiding in Plain Sight: Gender, Faith, and the Conflicted Legacies of a Dutch Rescuer
"Even if We’ll Lose" – Jews Saving Jews in the Netherland
The Palestine Pioneers and the Westerweel Group
France
OSE Fieldworker: Madeleine Dreyfus
Women in the Jewish Resistance in France
André Chouraqui: The Earthly Vocation of an Underground Ferryman
Italy and Greece
The Work of DELASEM for the Rescue of Italian and Foreign Jews (1939– 1945)
Romaniote, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jewish Rescuers in the Holocaust
Rescue in Ghettos and Camps
The Angel from Auschwitz: The Rescue Activities of Jacob "Jakitto" Maestro in Auschwitz
"A Steadfast Spirit": The Rescue Work of Surviving Ghetto Fighters after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jewish Physicians in Ghettos and Camps Who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust, 1939– 1945
Saving Jews in Buchenwald and Auschwitz: The Story of Chaskel Tydor
Other Areas of Rescue
The Bernese Group: A Major Joint Polish- Jewish Rescue Operation
Jews Rescue Jews: Immigration and Illegal immigration during the Holocaust
