'Bystanders' to the Holocaust: A Re-Evaluation

Publish yr note: First released January 1st 2002 through Frank Cass Publishers
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Using available archival assets, a crew of historians show how a lot the us, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew in regards to the Nazi try to homicide all of the Jews of Europe in the course of global struggle II.

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Publish yr note: First released January 1st 2002 through Frank Cass Publishers
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Using available archival assets, a crew of historians show how a lot the us, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew in regards to the Nazi try to homicide all of the Jews of Europe in the course of global struggle II.

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However, most of these studies have focused on the activity of rescuers in Nazi Germany or adjacentcountries, or those based in Nazi-occupiedcountries in wartime Europe. Fogelman'sapproachmay even lead one to underestimatethe difficulties and dilemmas of rescue work carriedout in more benign circumstances. Towardsa Taxonomyof Rescuers 29 In The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination Tony Kushner demonstrateshow the ethos of liberal democracymilitated against an appreciationof specificJewishsufferingand the needfor targeted aid.

In an interview he recalled:'My parentswereJewishbut completely non-religious. ' Educated at University College School in London and Stowe, Winton trained and worked as a banker in France and Germany before joining the London stock exchange. Nevertheless,he described himself as 'left-wing'. Winton was an energeticand ingenious fund-raiser, and he was ably assistedby Quaker and Unitarian groups. He circulated photographsof the children and published a regular appeal in Sir Edward Hulton's Picture Post, a hugely popular illustrated magazinewhoseproprietor Towardsa Taxonomyof Rescuers 47 4l had backedmany progressive,anti-Fascist,and refugeecauses.

224-9. 85-99. 103-45. 132--4. 171-98. 199-211. 237-68. Eva Fogelman's1995 study, Conscienceand Courage, lists no less than 80 books, chapters and articles (the majority published since 1970) dealing with rescuestories and over 100 monographsand articles analysing aspectsof the subject.! However, most of these studies have focused on the activity of rescuers in Nazi Germany or adjacentcountries, or those based in Nazi-occupiedcountries in wartime Europe. Fogelman'sapproachmay even lead one to underestimatethe difficulties and dilemmas of rescue work carriedout in more benign circumstances.

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