| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: "at the edge of nowhere" -- Learning how to oppose -- The ghettos -- The forests -- The concentration camps -- The couriers -- The special case of Jan Karski -- Conclusion: "not alone." |
| Summary |
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews fight back? To Tec, this question suggested that Jews were somehow complicit in their own extermination. Despite works by Tec and others, the stereotype of Jewish passivity in the Holocaust persists. In |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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War -- Underground movements
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104100
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| Subject |
Poland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199339457 |
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0199339457 |
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1299533604 |
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9781299533608 |
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