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Unlikely Heroes - The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching (Paperback)
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Unlikely Heroes - The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Holocaust Studies
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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 brave men and women, today regarded as the Righteous Among
the Nations, went largely unrecognized; indeed, sometimes they were
even singled out for abuse from their co-nationals for their
selfless actions. Unlikely Heroes traces the evolution of the
humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians,
politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like
Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts
of humanitarian organizations. Contributors in this edited
collection also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with
the role of rescuers, at both the university and the secondary
level.
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