Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi GermanyMark Roseman
Few Germans helped Jews or other victims of Nazi persecution. Mark Roseman’s fascinating new book on the activities of a little-known group, the Bund: Gemeinschaft für sozialistisches Leben (League: Community for Socialist Life), brings small but important rays of light into this otherwise dark pict...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 282-284 |
| Review of: | Lives reclaimed (Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019) (Crew, David F.)
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| Summary: | Few Germans helped Jews or other victims of Nazi persecution. Mark Roseman’s fascinating new book on the activities of a little-known group, the Bund: Gemeinschaft für sozialistisches Leben (League: Community for Socialist Life), brings small but important rays of light into this otherwise dark picture. In 2000, Roseman introduced readers to the remarkable activities of the Bund in his excellent book about Marianne Strauss, a young Jewish woman in Essen who went into hiding in 1943 to escape deportation “to the East.” Marianne could not have survived without the help of the Bund members who gave her shelter and food, as well as moral and emotional support. Like Marianne Strauss, several thousand German Jews (mainly in Berlin) risked trying to live “underground. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab021 |