RT Book
T1 Lives reclaimed: a story of rescue and resistance in Nazi Germany
A1 Rozman, Marḳ 1958-
LA English
PP Oxford, United Kingdom
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2019
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1755400756
AB Years of innocence -- The assault -- From vanguard to refuge -- Calls to arms -- Lifelines -- In plain sight -- The test of total war -- The endgame -- Our flock has grown lonely -- Beyond recognition -- Conclusion: The rescue of history.
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DD256.3
SN 0198802846
SN 9780198802846
K1 Bund--Gemeinschaft für Sozialistisches Leben : History
K1 Bund - Volkshochschulkreis
K1 BMBF-Statusseminar
K1 Jews : Germany : History : 1933-1945
K1 Anti-Nazi movement : History
K1 World War, 1939-1945 : Jews : Rescue : Germany
K1 Government, Resistance to : Germany : History : 20th century
K1 Socialists : Germany : History : 20th century
K1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
K1 Anti-Nazi movement : Germany
K1 Anti-Nazi movement
K1 Underground movements, War
K1 Judenverfolgung
K1 Rettung
K1 Widerstand
K1 Germany : History : 1933-1945
K1 Germany