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Gay Block: Rescuers

Gay Block: Rescuers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781942185673

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A new, redesigned edition of Gay Block's classic photobook documenting those who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust First published in 1992 to widespread acclaim, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust is a landmark photobook on the commemoration of the Holocaust. Featuring photograph portraits, archives and interviews, it was the first book (and exhibition) by Houston-born photographer Gay Block (born 1942); the exhibition has been seen in over 50 venues in the US and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Block spent more than three years traveling in eight countries, accompanied by rabbi and author Malka Drucker, documenting testimonies from more than 100 rescuers--people who risked their lives to rescue Jewish victims from the Holocaust. The stories range from those who saved one life to those who worked in the resistance and saved thousands, always with the threat of death and torture if they were discovered. This new edition features a complete redesign and new foreword by scholar of Jewish American art Samantha Baskind.


Bertha Alyce

Bertha Alyce
Author: Gay Block
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780826330949

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This collection of Block's photographs (sections of which involve nudity) presents her complicated, and at times difficult, relationship with her mother, Bertha Alyce, and a mother-daughter quest for healing.


White Fire

White Fire
Author: Malka Drucker
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1893361640

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"Since the beginning of time, women have been sustainers of spiritual communities--now, they're strengthening them in leadership roles." -- inside cover.


Rescuers

Rescuers
Author: Gay Block
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1997
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN:

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Portraits of people who took great risks in order to rescue those persecuted by the Holocaust.


Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees

Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees
Author: John J. Michalczyk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781556129704

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Fifty years after World War II, critical issues of this international conflict still haunt our society today in business, war crimes trials, and international relations. This text focuses on the historical issues of Christian rescue of Jews, resistance to Nazi oppression, and the plight of the refugee in light of current problems facing us. The essays in this book, from nationally and internationally-known scholars, reveal that the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy but an epic human tragedy as well, one that has indelibly scarred the collective soul of twentieth-century society. As these scholars and witnesses provide insights into the historical context of World War II and the Holocaust, they also assist us in regulating the future behavior of ourselves, our country, and our world.


A Rescuer's Story

A Rescuer's Story
Author: Tela Zasloff
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2003-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299175030

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In telling Pierre-Charles Toureille’s story, Tela Zasloff also describes the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who participated in an aggressive rescue effort. She delves into their motivations, including their Huguenot heritage as members of a religious minority.


Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies

Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies
Author: David K. Fremon
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 076606221X

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The heroes of the Holocaust were individuals who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews from certain death. Author David K. Fremon recounts the actions some people took to save the lives of thousands of people trying to escape from the Nazis and their deadly persecution. Some heroes are now famous, but many unknown heroes took action to forge false identity papers, leave out food for refugees, and hide Jews in their homes.


Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind

Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind
Author: Norman Geras
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1789607132

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What are the sources of solidarity? Do universalist motives have an important place among them? And how are they related to arguments about human nature and about truth? In this new book, Norman Geras engages with the work of Richard Rorty to explore the paradoxes of a liberalism which rejects any determinate view of human nature. He begins by examining Rorty's thesis concerning rescuer behavior during the Holocaust. Measuring it against existing research on the subject and the testimony of rescuers themselves, Geras questions Rorty's use of their moral example as a challenge to universalist assumptions. He then considers some of the problems in Rorty's anti-essentialism: his shifting usages of "human nature"; the paradoxical plea for extensive forms of solidarity on the basis of parochial communitarian premises; the relationship of pragmatist notions of truth to issues of justice; and the project of a democratic, would-be "humanist" utopia grounded only on contingencies. Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind is an imagined dialogue with Rorty-influential, eloquent and unorthodox champion of a human radical liberalism.


We Only Know Men

We Only Know Men
Author: Patrick Henry
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813214939

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This historical study of the Holocaust explores the rescue activity in all 12 Protestant villages on the plateau of Vivarais-Lignon. Through letters, interviews, and unpublished autobiographical notes by some of the key rescuers, it highlights the extraordinary ordinary involvement of those who risked their lives to shelter thousands.


A Conspiracy Of Decency

A Conspiracy Of Decency
Author: Emmy E Werner
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786746696

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The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity -- one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the rescue of the Danish Jews from the vantage-point of living eyewitnesses- the last survivors of an extraordinary conspiracy of decency that triumphed in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust. A Conspiracy of Decency chronicles the acts of people of good will from several nationalities. Among them were the German Georg F. Duckwitz, who warned the Jews of their impending deportation, the Danes who hid them and ferried them across the Oresund, and the Swedes who gave them asylum. Regardless of their social class, education, and religious and political persuasion, the rescuers all shared one important characteristic: they defined their humanity by their ability to act with great compassion. These people never considered themselves heroes -- they simply felt that they were doing the right thing.