Resisters : how ordinary Jews fought persecution in Hitler's Germany / Wolf Gruner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruner, Wolf, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Biography.

Jews.

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945.

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.

Anti-Nazi movement.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Persecutions.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 212 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Other Title:

How ordinary Jews fought persecution in Hitler's Germany

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book tells the story of five Jewish people--a merchant, a homemaker, a real estate broker, and two teenagers--who bravely resisted persecution and defended themselves in Nazi Germany. These stories have not been told until now, and each case is one of many, as Gruner shows by resurfacing similar accounts of Jewish refusal to accept persecution and violence in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1943, upending the notion of passive Jews and expanding the concept of resistance. Each individual described here represents a category of resistance: written opposition, oral protest, contesting Nazi propaganda, defiance of anti-Jewish laws and measures, and self-defense against physical attacks. Many of these courageous acts resulted in the resisters being prosecuted and put on trial, and often receiving harsh punishments, while some led to acquittal by courts and others to changes in Nazi policies. Taken together, these accounts reframe our understanding of German Jewish attitudes during the Holocaust, while also providing an astonishing examination of the complex Nazi reactions to the many individual acts of Jewish resistance."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Contesting Nazi propaganda : David Bornstein in Hamburg and others

Verbal protest against the persecution : Henriette Schafer in Frankfurt and others

Defying anti-Jewish laws : Hans Oppenheimer in Frankfurt and others

Protest in writing about Nazi persecution : Benno Neuburger in Munich and others

Acting in physical self-defense : Daisy Gronowski in Urfeld and others.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gruner, Wolf, 1960- Resisters.

ISBN:

9780300267198

0300267193

OCLC:

1375058882