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Unlikely heroes : the place of Holocaust rescuers in research and teaching /

Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the populati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kohen, Ari, 1977- (Editor ), Steinacher, Gerald (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Contemporary Holocaust studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ari Kohen and Gerald J. Steinacher
  • Part 1. Research about rescue ; Holocaust rescuers in historical and academic scholarship / Roy G. Koepp ; The saved and the betrayed: hidden Jews in the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Benjamin Frommer ; The final rescue? Liberation and the Holocaust / Mark Celinscak ; The war refugee board: formulating rescue from Washington / Rebecca Erbelding ; Raol Wallenberg: the making of an American hero / Michael Dick ; The university in exile and the garden of Eden: Alvin Johnson and his rescue efforts for European Jews and intellectuals / Gerald J. Steinacher and Brian Barmettler
  • Part 2. Teaching about rescue ; From saints to sinners: teaching about the motivations of rescuers of Jews through documentary and feature films / Lawrence Baron ; Complicating the narrative: Oskar Schindler, Schindler's list, and the classroom / Mark Gudgel ; Teaching the lesson of moral courage through writing / Liz Feldstern and Amanda Ryan
  • Suggested further reading and films.