| When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland Revised Edition Contributor(s): Tec, Nechama (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195051947 ISBN-13: 9780195051940 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1987 Annotation: Hiding Jews from the Nazis carried the death penalty, and yet an unusual group of Christians willingly opened their doors to Jews. Who were these rescuers and what motivated them to risk their lives for persecuted Jews? Based on case histories and the author's own personal experiences, she vividly recreates the experiences of both the rescuers and the rescued. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.05" W x 9.03" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Everyone knows the name of Anne Frank but few people remember anything about the people who sheltered her. Who were the rescuers and what motivated them to risk their lives for persecuted Jews? Clearly such people deserve to be remembered and honored. And clearly an understanding of their motivations may help us cultivate such behavior in our own day. Focusing on such righteous Christians, Tec, herself a survivor helped by Poles, vividly recreates what it was like to pass and hide among Christians and what it was like for Poles to rescue Jews. Concentrating on Poland, the Nazi center for Jewish annihilation, Tec amassed a vast array of published accounts, unpublished testimonies, and interviews, yielding case histories of over 500 Polish helpers, preserving for posterity the heroism of such people, and filling a significant gap in our knowledge of the Holocaust. |