Jewish Resistance against the Nazis

671 Pages·2014·4.52 MB·English

by  Patrick Gerard Henry (ed)

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Jewish
Resistance
against
the
Nazis
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Jewish
Resistance
against
the
Nazis
Edited by Patrick Henry
The Catholic University of America Press
Washington, D.C.
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Copyright © 2014
The Catholic University of America Press
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minimum requirements of American National
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jewish resistance against the Nazis / edited by
Patrick Henry.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8132-2589-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. World War, 1939–1945—Jewish resistance.
2. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, Jewish.
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) I. Henry, Patrick
(Patrick Gerard), editor of compilation. II. Lang,
Berel, author. Why didn’t they resist more?
D810.J4J49 2014
940.53'18—dc23 2013041583
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For Mary Anne, Anne, Nathan, June, and Irene
You wish to praise the heroes, fine,
but please don’t do it at the expense
of the victims; don’t separate them
in the flames and the ashes. Even
the heroes were victims and the
victims, too, were heroes.
—Elie Wiesel
In memory of all those murdered during the
Shoah and for all the Jewish people who,
already sentenced to death by virtue of their
birth, risked their lives to save the lives of other
Jews throughout occupied Europe during the
Nazi genocide
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Jewish Resistance against the Nazis xiii
Patrick Henry
Part 1. Myths and Facts
1. The Myth of Jewish Passivity 3
Richard Middleton-Kaplan
2. Why Didn’t They Resist More? 27
Berel Lang
3. Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions 40
Nechama Tec
Part 2. Western Europe and the Yishuv
4. Up in Arms: Jewish Resistance against Nazi Germany
in France 73
Nathan Bracher
5. Unarmed Combat: Jewish Humanitarian Resistance in
France during the Shoah 92
Nancy Lefenfeld
6. Unique Aspects of Jewish Armed Resistance and
Rescue in Belgium 121
Suzanne Vromen
7. Resistance and Italian Jews in Wartime Italy 138
Ariella Lang
8. Greek Responses to the Nazis in the Mountains
and in the Camps 161
Steven Bowman
vii
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Contents
9. “Therefore Be Courageous, Too”: Jewish Resistance
and Rescue in the Netherlands 185
Yehudi Lindeman and Hans de Vries
10. Between Accommodation and Awareness: Jewish Resistance
in Scandinavia under Nazism 220
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
11. Organizing Jewish Resistance: The Decision-Making and
Executive Array in Yishuv Rescue Operations during
the Holocaust 245
Tuvia Friling
Part 3. Children as Resisters and Music as Resistance
12. Raising Their Voices: Children’s Resistance through
Diary Writing and Song 279
Debórah Dwork
13. An Untold Story of Rescue: Jewish Children and Youth
in German-Occupied Poland 300
Joanna Beata Michlic
14. Music as Resistance 319
Nick Strimple
Part 4. Central and Eastern Europe
15. Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933–45 341
Dieter Kuntz
16. “Three Lines in History?” Modes of Jewish Resistance in
Eastern European Ghettos 366
Dalia Ofer
17. Jewish Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto 393
Avinoam Patt
18. Courage to Defy: Jews of the Independent State of Croatia 426
Fight Back, 1941–45
Esther Gitman
19. Legal Tools Instead of Weapons: Jewish Resistance to the
State Takeover of Urban Real Estate and Businesses during
the Antonescu Regime, 1940–44 448
Ştefan Ionescu
20. Jewish Resistance in the Ukraine and Belarus during
the Holocaust 483
Yehuda Bauer
viii
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Contents
21. Jewish Resistance in Slovakia, 1938–45 504
Hana Kubátová
22. Defying Genocide: Jewish Resistance and Self-Rescue
in Hungary 519
Gábor Kádár, Christine Schmidt van der Zanden, and Zoltán Vági
23. Resistance in the Camps 547
Robert Jan van Pelt
Contributors 595
Index of Names 601
Subject Index 613
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