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Heroines, rescuers, rabbis, spies : unsung women of the Holocaust

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  • Author: Swartz, Sarah Silberstein
    Date:
    Created
    2023
    Summary:

    Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile.

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • Born for the pulpit: Rabbi Regina Jonas
    • Woman warrior with a camera: Faye Lazebnik Schulman
    • Heroine of six thousand visas: Yukiki Kikuchi Sugihara
    • Chronicler and conscience of the Holocaust: Rachel Eiga Auerbach
    • Jewish spy for the British: Vera Rosenberg Atkins
    • Surrogate mother of many: Lena Kuchler Silberman
    • One righteous woman: Irena Gut Opdyke
    • Sister survivors: Ruth Zlotnik Altman and Rgina Zlognik Silberstein.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, Young adult nonfiction
    Sujets: Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) | Jewish women in the Holocaust | War--Underground movements | Women | Women heroes | World War (1939-1945)
    Original Publisher: Toronto, ON : Second Story Press, [2022], Toronto, Ontario, CELA
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781038424945, 1038424941