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Book SynopsisEvery genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies - the genocides of the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandese Tutsi - this book is the first international comparative and multidisciplinary attempt to make rescue an object of research, while breaking free of the notion of 'The Righteous Among the Nations'. The result is an exceptionally rich and disturbing volume. While it is impossible to distill or describe what makes an individual into a rescuer, acts of rescue reveal a historical fact: the existence of an informal, underground network of rescuers - however fragile - as soon as genocides get underway, and in every geographical and social context.
Trade Review'A unique offering among the literature on genocides - of the highest quality - the scholarship is impeccable.' * Gerard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide *
'Intellectually stimulating, engaging, and thought-provoking ... the study offers a fresh analytical perspective and a novel set of cross- disciplinary questions about rescue. It includes impressive, first-class scholarship.' * Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsPART ONE Between History and Memory: Rescue As a Notion Chapter 1 From the Memory of Rescue to the Institution of the Title of Righteous among the Nations Sarah Gensburger Chapter 2 In Search of the Righteous People: The case of the Armenian Massacres of 1915 Fatma Muge Gocek Chapter 3 A comparative approach to assistance given to the Jews and to allied soldiers and airmen in France Claire Andrieu Chapter 4 Researching the Survival and Rescue of Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe: A Plea for the Use of Quantitative Methods Marnix Croes Chapter 5 Anti-Semitism and Rescue of the Jews in France: An Odd Couple? Renee Poznanski Chapter 6 Who Dared to Rescue Jews & WhyA" Nechama Tec Chapter 7 Rescue and Self-Interest. Protecting Property to Save People? Florent Le Bot Chapter 8 Italian Jews and the Memory of Rescue (1944-1961) Paola Bertilotti Chapter 9 Rescuers and killer-rescuers during the Rwanda genocide: Rethinking standard categories of analysis Lee Ann Fujii PART TWO The State, Its Borders and the Conditions for Aid Chapter 10 Rescue Practices during the Armenian Genocide Hasmik Tevosyan Chapter 11 The Opposition of ottoman civil servants to the genocide of the Armenians. Comparison approach of Turkish towns Raymond Kevorkian Chapter 12 Conversion and rescue: survival strategies in the Armenian genocide Ugur A mit A ngor Chapter 13 Humanitarianism and Massacres. The example of the International Committee of the Red Cross Irene Herrmann and Daniel Palmieri Chapter 14 The Swiss faced with the Nazi genocide: active refusal, passive help. Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann Chapter 15The OSE and the Rescue of Jewish Children, from the Postwar to the Prewar Period Katy Hazan and Georges Weill Chapter 16 The Context of Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe Bob Moore Chapter 17 The Brunner AktionA"; a struggle against rescue. (September 1943 to March 1944) Tal Bruttmann Chapter 18 Guide and MotivatorA" or Central TreasuryA"? The Role of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in France, 1942-1944 Laura Hobson Faure Chapter 19 The BBC Hungarian Service In World War Two and the Rescue of the Jews of Hungary, 1940-1945 Frank Chalk Chapter 20 From RescueA" to Violence: Overcoming Local Opposition to Genocide in Rwanda Scott Straus Chapter 21 Crossing the Frontier as a Way of Escape: Examples taken from the Gishamvu and Kigembe Communities of Rwanda Charles Mulinda Kabwete PART THREE Networks, Minorities and Rescue Chapter 22 Swiss missionary Beatrice Rohner's work in the death camps of Armenians in 1916 Hans-Lukas Kieser Chapter 23 The Impossible Rescue of the Armenians of Mardin. The Sinjar Safe Haven Yves Ternon Chapter 24 Was the UGIF an obstacle to the rescue of the Jews? Michel Laffitte Chapter 25 Roundups, Rescue and Social Networks in Paris (1940-1944) Camille Menager Chapter 26 Protestant minorities, Judeo-Protestant affinities and rescue of the Jews in the 1940s Patrick Cabanel Chapter 27 Nieuwlande, Land of Rescue (1941/1942 - 1945) Michel Fabreguet Chapter 28 Surviving Undetected: The BundA", rescue and memory in Germany Marc Roseman Chapter 29 Social cohesion and State of exception: the Muslims of Mabare during the genocide in Rwanda (April 1994) Emmanuel Viret Conclusion. Rescue, A Notion Revisited Claire Andrieu Bibliography Index of names Index of places
