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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph 2 Contents 8 Introduction 12 Holocaust Rescuers in Historical and Academic Scholarship 24 The Saved and the Betrayed 48 The Final Rescue? 68 The War Refugee Board 97 Raoul Wallenberg 121 The University in Exile and the Garden of Eden 150 From Saints to Sinners 178 Complicating the Narrative 209 Teaching the Lesson of Moral Courage through Writing 233 Suggested Further Reading and Films 244 Contributors 254 Index 258 Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2019,ISBN:9781496216328,Related ISBN:9781496208927,Language:English,OCLC:1088892114 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 population in Nazi-occupied Europe. As inspiring figures and role models, rescuers challenge us to consider how we would act if we found ourselves in similarly perilous situations of grave moral import. Their stories speak to us and move us. Yet this was not always the case. Seventy years ago these

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Author

Ari Kohen; Gerald Steinacher; ProQuest (Firme)

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press (Mare Nostrum)

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496208927

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities