Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe

by Bob Moore and George Madden Martin

Book Overview

Survivors is the first examination of how more than half of the Jews in Western Europe survived the Holocaust. The widely differing rates of Jewish mortality have long vexed historians, who have traditionally concentrated on explaining this problem through national studies or by using a comparative approach, concentrating on the role of perpetrators, victims, and circumstances. In contrast, Survivors emphasizes the factors that helped Jews to avoid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199208239
• ISBN13: 9780199208234
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"