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Survivors - Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe (Hardcover)
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Survivors - Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe (Hardcover)
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Survivors is the first examination of how more than half of the
Jews in Western Europe survived the Holocaust. The widely differing
rates of Jewish mortality have long vexed historians, who have
traditionally concentrated on explaining this problem through
national studies or by using a comparative approach, concentrating
on the role of perpetrators, victims, and circumstances. In
contrast, Survivors emphasizes the factors that helped Jews to
avoid deportation, either through escape or by going underground.
Taken as a whole, it book provides the first comprehensive study of
Jewish survival in Western Europe in all its forms.
Firstly, the book focuses on the escape routes used by Jews fleeing
from the Nazis, and the disparate networks that ran them, including
the routes from France into Spain and Switzerland, but also the
lesser know history of the escape of Norwegian Jewry and the famous
rescue from Denmark in 1943. Few of these networks were exclusively
devoted to helping Jews -- in fact, most of them helped all manner
of people, including Allied aircrew, escaping Prisoners of War, and
political opponents. Moreover, they were not exclusively the
product of the Second World War -- as Bob Moore shows, many had
linkages with resistance in the First World War, and indeed to
opposition to state power stretching back centuries.
The second half of the book is devoted to three national case
studies (France, Belgium, and the Netherlands) that focus on the
interrelationship between Jewish self-help and the individuals and
organizations that assisted in hiding them, including the Christian
churches. These case studies serve to highlight the very different
circumstances and structures pertaining in these three countries
and how this had a direct bearing on levels of survival. Separate
chapters then deal with the case of child rescue and the
motivations of those involved in this most contentious of issues.
Finally, the spotlight is turned on cases where Jews were saved,
either directly or indirectly, by the Nazis themselves - and on the
vexed question of Jews who survived by collaborating with the
arrest and deportation of their co-religionists.
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