Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust (Judaic Studies Series) [Paperback]

Brana Gurewitsch (Editor)

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• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: University Alabama Press; 1 edition (November 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817309527
• ISBN-13: 978-0817309527
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars How they resisted, June 11, 2001

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This review is from: Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust (Judaic Studies Series) (Paperback)

This book gives us the priceless oral histories of 25 women who survived the Holocaust. Some were famous--like Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter Marysia Warman and Helen Foxman, the mother of Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman, also a survivor. Most would have been anonymous but for these oral accounts.

From each brief history one gleans the minutia and split second decisions that made the difference between life and death and the keen will to live that bore up each woman.

Their accounts banish the overriding sense of doom normally associated with the Holocaust. Most of these women most lost everyone and everything they had, but not their human dignity. Very often, they managed to save others. Helen Foxman, for example, saved herself, her husband and her infant son. In Auschwitz, Miriam Rosenthal miraculously bore a son, who also survived. Even when their efforts amounted to little more than prayers and hope, each one resisted. Alyssa A. Lappen