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Eva Fogelman
Autor de Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Obras de Eva Fogelman
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- FOGELMAN, Eva
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1946
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- Brooklyn College
New York University
Boston Family Institute
Boston University Medical School
City University of New York - Ocupaciones
- psychologist
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 295
- Popularidad
- #79,435
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Fogelman devised five categories of reasons why rescuers did what they did: MORAL (feelings of conscience), JUDEOPHILE (knowing and liking specific Jews, or feeling a connection to Jews), NETWORK (anti-Nazi sentiment motivates them to help others opposed or victimized by Nazis), CONCERNED PROFESSIONALISM (already working in the “helping” field as doctors, nurses, social workers and others), and CHILDREN (mostly children of adult rescuers). Many rescuers could be placed in overlapping categories, for example, diplomats and businessmen who saved hundreds of Jews.
The book is filled with stunning examples of long- and short-term rescues throughout Europe whether by one Non-Jew, a family, a town, or a network of resistance fighters. We learn of brave rescuers who gave their hearts and souls; their homes, food, money, health and lives to help protect and save Jews. The challenges were overwhelming: death if caught by the Nazis, little available space, food, supplies, money, the daily stress of hiding Jews from nosy neighbors, other family members, answering probing questions from neighbors or Nazis, acting normal under abnormal circumstances, thinking on their feet during searches, dealing with illness and disease with limited or no medical resources, keeping the peace among the terrified Jews, etc.
Fogelman faced challenges in finding and interviewing many rescuers for a number of reasons:
• Rescuers didn’t consider what they had done heroic or special.
• Some rescuers needed to lie to family members during the war, and could not now come forward and admit their roles.
• Anti-Semitism didn’t just stop when the war ended. Many rescuers continued to keep their life-saving actions secret and asked those they saved to refrain from telling anyone. (Rescuers that were found out were often threatened and beaten by their neighbors.)
• Other rescuers didn’t know the fates of the Jews they had protected; if they had they survived or not.
• Young children who had been saved may not have known the identity of their rescuers.
Conscience and Courage is informative and very readable. Fogelman provides much detail about the country, region, attitudes, psychology and emotions of each rescue and rescuer. This enables the reader to understand, and care about these exceptional, strong, gracious saviors, and to recognize the gratitude due them.… (más)