All Our Brothers and Sisters

The Book All Our Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust, composed of 18 chapters, focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under the Nazi rule.

The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule. The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to different degrees, in Germany, in Axis states and all across Nazi-occupied Europe, from the early stages of persecution until the war's end, in the framework of collaborative efforts and individual initiatives. The Jews who rescued other Jews during the Holocaust came like their non-Jewish counterparts from different backgrounds: men and women, old and young, religious and secular, wealthy and poor, educated and uneducated. The rescue missions took place in ghettos, areas without ghettos, jails, camps, hospitals, children's homes, schools, monasteries, in hiding. This book focuses on these rescue missions and the people behind them, reminding us of their courage and willingness to act, even when it put their own lives in danger.

Autorentext

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, memory, State of Israel, The United States, and commemoration. Alan M. Schneider is the director of the B nai Brith World Center in Jerusalem. He is a founding member of two international Holocaust memorial projects: "Unto Every Person There is a Name" and of "The Committee to Recognize Jews who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust" and initiated the "Jewish Rescuers Citation" and the "Jews Rescuing Jews" Forum at Bar- Ilan University s Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research.

Inhalt

Introduction

Belgium

A Closer Look at Jewish Resistance Members in Occupied Belgium

From Insubordination to Resistance in the SS- Sammellager für Juden in Belgium

Jewish Double Agents in Belgium: CDJ (Jewish Defense Committee) Employees within the Jewish Council

Jewish Civil Resistance and the Slow Emergence of the Memory of the Holocaust in Belgium

The Netherlands

Hiding in Plain Sight: Gender, Faith, and the Conflicted Legacies of a Dutch Rescuer

"Even if We'll Lose" Jews Saving Jews in the Netherland

The Palestine Pioneers and the Westerweel Group

France

OSE Fieldworker: Madeleine Dreyfus

Women in the Jewish Resistance in France

André Chouraqui: The Earthly Vocation of an Underground Ferryman

Italy and Greece

The Work of DELASEM for the Rescue of Italian and Foreign Jews (1939 1945)

Romaniote, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jewish Rescuers in the Holocaust

Rescue in Ghettos and Camps

The Angel from Auschwitz: The Rescue Activities of Jacob "Jakitto" Maestro in Auschwitz

"A Steadfast Spirit": The Rescue Work of Surviving Ghetto Fighters after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jewish Physicians in Ghettos and Camps Who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust, 1939 1945

Saving Jews in Buchenwald and Auschwitz: The Story of Chaskel Tydor

Other Areas of Rescue

The Bernese Group: A Major Joint Polish- Jewish Rescue Operation

Jews Rescue Jews: Immigration and Illegal immigration during the Holocaust