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Lives Reclaimed - A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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Lives Reclaimed - A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against
the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely
unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in
Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied with
surviving the Nazi onslaught and adapting to clandestine life under
a dictatorship, in 1938 the men and women of the Bund were shocked
by the anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht into reaching out to
their Jewish neighbours. Using an unparalleled trove of previously
undiscovered private papers, Mark Roseman places support for Jews
under the shadow of Nazism in a completely new light, exploring the
striking palette of gestures and actions that proved possible even
in Nazi Germany - from simple symbolic acts of solidarity, through
sending parcels to the Polish ghettos and Theresienstadt, to
providing false identities and hiding people on the run. In doing
so, he uncovers the challenges of living and acting under a
dictatorship when neighbours and acquaintances might be as great a
threat as the Gestapo, and examines the experiences of those
assisted by the group, as they hid in plain sight, moving from
address to address. Throughout, we are prompted to ask what drove
and equipped the Bund to step into the broken glass of
Kristallnacht, to visit Jewish organizations and Jewish barracks to
ascertain local needs, to line up in the post-office with packages
for Theresienstadt, or to brave a visit to the cells in a local
police station with a message for imprisoned Jews? Although not the
first book to tell the story of Jews saved from Nazi persecution,
the story of the Bund is unique in the way it is able to pursue the
choices, dilemmas, fears, and hopes of the helpers themselves,
observing them through the changing conditions of both war and
Holocaust.
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