Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of the Jews During the Holocaust - Softcover

Fogelman, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575063181 ISBN 13: 9780575063181

Publisher: Gollancz, 1996

Synopsis

This work is about people who, at great risk to themselves and their families, helped Jews escape the Nazis during the Holocaust. It analyzes the lives of these courageous people in an effort to determine why these particular individuals chose - and were able - to act in such a way.

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Review

"Fogelman has made a monor contribution toHolocaust studies in collcting these accounts ofconscience and courage." --The WashingtonPost Book World.
"Byevoking the noble along with the horrible, Ms.Fogelman helps to add a dimension to ourunderstanding of the Holocaust. And, more than that, hers isa work of remembrance." --The NewYork Times Book Review"

"Fogelman has made a monor contribution to Holocaust studies in collcting these accounts of conscience and courage." --The Washington Post Book World.

"By evoking the noble along with the horrible, Ms. Fogelman helps to add a dimension to our understanding of the Holocaust. And, more than that, hers is a work of remembrance." --The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Eva Fogelman is a psychotherapist, social psychologist, and filmmaker. She ise a founding director of the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers (a project of the Anti-Defamation League), and is the codirector of psychotherapy with generations of the Holocaust and related traumas at the Training Institute for Mental Health. She is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Social Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Fogelman was a writer and coproducer of the PBS series Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust (1984). She lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575063181
• ISBN 13: 9780575063181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416