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Resistance : how Jews and Christians fought against the Nazis / Nechama Tec.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tec, Nechama.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews fight back? To Tec, this question suggested that Jews were somehow complicit in their own extermination. Despite works by Tec and others, the stereotype of Jewish passivity in the Holocaust persists. In
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Learning how to oppose
- ch. 2. The ghettos
- ch. 3. The forests
- ch. 4. The concentration camps
- ch. 5. The couriers
- ch. 6. The special case of Jan Karski.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991262-9
- 0-19-025438-6
- 0-19-933945-7
- OCLC:
- 843880843
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