Resistance

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/17/2021
  

  Justus Rosenberg, Beloved Professor With a Heroic Past, Dies at 100

  Bard literature professor Justus Rosenberg helped artists and intellectuals free Vichy France, fought in the French Resistance, and aided the allied armies' march across Europe before emigrating to the United States and beginning a long academic career. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  New Book of Family History Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany

  Rebecca Donner, great-great-neice of Mildred Harnack, an American-born woman executed in 1943 for anti-Nazi activity in Germany, has written a book of family history that also shows the melting away of German delusions about Hitler's intentions and power. 

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• 4/4/2021
  

  Hidden Stories of Jewish Resistance in Poland

  by Judy Batalion

  I was fascinated by the widespread resistance efforts of Polish Jews, but equally by their absence from current understandings of the war. Of all the legions of Holocaust tales, what had happened to this one?

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• 3/14/2021
  

  "We Just Did What We Had To": Telling the Story of a Slovenian Partisan and a Kiwi POW

  by Doug Gold

  The author tells a dramatic story of World War II: the meeting of his in-laws, a Slovene partisan fighter and a Kiwi prisoner of war under Nazi occupation.

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• 11/8/2020
  

  How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis

  by Jeffrey H. Jackson

  Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.

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• 10/13/19
  

  International Resistance in World War 2 Europe

  by Olivier Wieviorka

  While national histories of wartime resistance are plentiful, the European dimension of the shadow army has rarely been taken into account.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  9-10-18
  

  Resistance Means More Than Voting

  by Garry Wills

  Obama is wrong to suggest that voting and only voting is the way to express one’s opposition to a tyrant like Trump.

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• 7/29/18
  

  Why the Wartime TV Series “A French Village” Is Important

  by Walter G. Moss

  The series explores what happens when a fictional French village during World War 2 is occupied by Nazis. Some people resist. Others collaborate.

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• 10-15-17
  

  We’re Shifting from Protest to Resistance – Just Like People Did in the 60s.

  by Holly Scott

  That can end badly if it devolves into infighting.

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• 9-22-14
  

  Review of Nechama Tec's "Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror"

  by Patrick Henry

  Her latest study breaks new ground even as it reiterates the major themes of her illustrious life’s work.