Index. Foreward / Mordecai Paldiel -- Women defying Hitler: An introduction / Nathan Stoltzfus, Mordecai Paldiel, Judy Baumel-Schwartz -- The Mischlinge exposé: Stories of assimilation and conversion / Nathan Stoltzfus -- Whoever saves one life, saves an entire world: Women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel -- Resisting obliteration: Learning about the lives and deaths of Jewish women during the Holocaust / Judy Baumel-Schwartz -- Defiance and resistance to Nazism from the perspective of gender, class, and generation / Volker Berghahn -- The women's protest on Rosenstrasse between commemoration, idealization, and debate / Susanne Heim -- Rescue through intervention in the Nazi decision-making process: Protest in Goebbels's Berlin / Chris Osmar, Nathan Stoltzfus -- Gariwo's philosophy: Educate to optimism and responsibility through the memory of the righteous / Gabriele Nissim -- Women and resistance: New perspectives from Germany and France / Anne Nelson -- Jewish women rescuers of Jews / Mordecai Paldiel -- Is food protest political?: Women's demonstrations in occupied France / Paula Schwartz -- Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945 by Rita Kuhn / Ruth Wiseman -- The Mischlinge exposé: Stories of assimilation and conversion / Carolyn Enger -- Epilogue / Mordecai Paldiel -- Appendix I: Unpublished letter to the editor from Rosenstrasse Survivor -- List of contributors -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices being empowered in this book are clear examples of the importance of protest by women in forcing a totalitarian regime to pause and reconsider its options for the moment. In revealing so, Women Defying Hitler ultimately foregrounds that women rescuers and resisters were and are of great continuing consequence"-- Provided by publisher.
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