Women defying Hitler : rescue and resistance under the Nazis / edited by Nathan Stoltzfus, Mordecai Paldiel, and Judy Baumel-Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Stoltzfus, Nathan, editor.

Paldiel, Mordecai, editor.

Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959- editor.

Conference Name:

Confronting the Nazis: Reflections on the Forms and Dilemmas of Resistance (2018 : Columbia University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Women political activists.

Germany.

Women political activists--Germany--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.

World War, 1939-1945.

Rosenstrasse Protest, Berlin, Germany, 1943.

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--History.

Anti-Nazi movement.

History.

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices being empowered in this book are clear examples of the importance of protest by women in forcing a totalitarian regime to pause and reconsider its options for the moment. In revealing so, Women Defying Hitler ultimately foregrounds that women rescuers and resisters were and are of great continuing consequence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Women Defying Hitler: An Introduction / Judy Baumel-Schwartz

1. Cumulative Radicalization: "Mixed-Race" Marriages Under Hitler and Remembrance / Nathan Stoltzfus

2. Whoever Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World: Women Rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel

3. Resisting Obliteration: Learning About the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women During the Holocaust / Judy Baumel-Schwartz

4. Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class, and Generation / Volker Berghahn

5. The Women's Protest on Rosenstrasse Between Commemoration, Idealization, and Debate / Susanne Heim

6. Rescue Through Intervention in the Nazi Decision-Making Process: Protest in Goebbels's Berlin / Nathan Stoltzfus

7. Gariwo's Philosophy: Educate to Optimism and Responsibility Through the Memory of the Righteous / Gabriele Nissim

8. Women and Resistance: New Perspectives from Germany and France / Anne Nelson

9. Jewish Women Rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel

10. Is Food Protest Political?: Women's Demonstrations in Occupied France / Paula Schwartz

11. Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an Excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945 by Rita Kuhn / Ruth Wiseman

12. The Mischlinge Expose: Stories of Assimilation and Conversion / Carolyn Enger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Women defying Hitler

ISBN:

9781350201552

1350201553

9781350201545

1350201545

OCLC:

1204342810

Publisher Number:

99988684371