Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust
by Nechama Tec
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In this, Nechama Tec's fifth book on the Holocaust, vivid individual stories blend effortlessly with detailed comparisons of wartime experiences of women and men. The result is a captivating account of how the coping strategies and the ultimate fate of each sex differed.Tec, as always, listens to the voices of the oppressed, voices that originated in wartime diaries, postwar memoirs, archival materials, and her own interviews with survivors and rescuers. Concentrating on life under extreme show more conditions, Tec's research uncovers the previously overlooked significance of mutual cooperation and compassion that operated across gender lines. show lessTags
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Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
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- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 940.5318082 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- World War II, 1939-1945 Social, political, economic history; Holocaust Holocaust Standard subdivisions
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- D804.47 .T43 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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