Gay Block

A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany show more the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries.A landmark volume that includes maps, historic photographs from family collections, a comprehensive Introduction by Malka Drucker, and a Prologue by Cynthia Ozick and Faces: An Afterword by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis and Gay Block’s color portraits of the rescuers, shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1992. show less

NO OF PAGES: 255 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Who are the rescuers, the men and women whose gripping personal narratives make up the core of this remarkable book? Why did they risk everything--even their lives and those of their families--to save Jews marked for death during the Holocaust? Are they ordinary people, as they modestly claim, or truly heroic? Gay Block and Malka Drucker spent three years interviewing 105 rescuers from ten countries. In their own show more words, forty-nine of these people present a vivid picture of their lives before, during, and after the war as they grapple with the question of why they acted with humanity in a time of barbarism--and whether they would do it again.NOTES: SUBTITLE: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust show less

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Film documentario che presenta le testimonianze dei soccorritori ebrei in Polonia, Olanda, Ungheria, Belgio, Germania, Francia, Cecoslovacchia e Ucraina. Raccontano le loro motivazioni e i pericoli che sono stati coinvolti nelle loro attività di salvataggio e si nascondono dalla persecuzione nazista.