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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Lincoln ; London :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Contemporary Holocaust studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.