Research Catalog

Title

Resilience and courage : women, men, and the Holocaust / Nechama Tec.

Author

Tec, Nechama.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

viii, 438 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "In this, Nechama Tec's fifth book on the Holocaust, vivid individual stories blend effortlessly with detailed comparisons of wartime experiences of women and men. The result is a gripping account of the distinct coping strategies and ultimate fate of each sex.".
• "Did women and men react differently under extreme conditions? Tec seeks answers by examining their experiences in a variety of Holocaust settings - during the initial stage of German occupation and in the ghettos, the Nazi concentration and death camps, the illegal Christian world, underground movements, and the forests. She shows how in each of these environments the women and men negotiated the rough terrain of a coercive and oppressive society.
• The Holocaust gender tapestry is complex, and this book carefully illuminates its varied strands."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance
• Holocaust survivors > Interviews
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives
• Jewish women in the Holocaust
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-417) and index.

Contents

1. Voices from the Past -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. Life in the Ghetto -- 4. Leaving the Ghetto -- 5. The Concentration Camps -- 6. Hiding and Passing in the Forbidden Christian World -- 7. Resistance -- 8. Conclusion.

ISBN

0300093551 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002012150

OCLC

• ocm50285103
• SCSB-4345949

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries