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Mothers, Sisters, Resisters, Mothers, Sisters, Resisters, 0817309314, 0-8173-0931-4, 978-0-8173-0931-2, 9780817309312, , , Mothers, Sisters, Resisters, 0817309527, 0-8173-0952-7, 978-0-8173-0952-7, 9780817309527,
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Mothers, Sisters, Resisters
Edited by Brana Gurewitsch
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These powerful oral testimonies provide an important historical record of women's experiences during the Holocaust. In Mothers, Sisters, Resisters, 25 survivors of the Holocaust furnish compelling and historically vital testimony that illuminates and explores Jewish women's experiences during that terrible period. In entries that preserve each voice, personality, and style, survivors describe their efforts to evade Nazi laws and subsequent dehumanization, protect their children and siblings, and maintain their Jewish identity. Throughout each narrative, from Brandla Small's description of having her child dragged from her arms at Auschwitz, to Eva Schonbrun's remembrances of her sister who refused to leave her siblings and save herself, to Emilie Schindler's account of rescuing Jews left abandoned on a cattle car, we become intimately involved with each woman's struggle and eventual survival. We also gain a new appreciation and understanding of the Holocaust experiences unique to women.

Brana Gurewitsch is Archivist at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
"Brana Gurewitsch has presented a valuable volume, carefully arrangedto reveal yet other angles of the Holocaust, angles that must remain irreducible,because they are the expressions, dutifully given, of individual souls. The women who speak to us throughout the book do so bravely and elegantly." —Barbara Galli, The University of Alabama "An important original contribution to the fields of Holocaust historyand women's studies. The stories are compelling, detailed, varied, andnicely balanced geographically. Gurewitsch's analysis is reasoned and scholarly,without excluding or diminishing the role that faith played in sustainingthe survivors." —Myrna Goldenberg, University of Maryland
1999 The Best of the Best Among University Presses, sponsored by American Library Association
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