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Escapees : The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands / Tanja von Fransecky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785338861
  • 9781785338878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53180922 23/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportations from Western Europe -- 2. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in France -- 3. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in Belgium -- 4. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in the Netherlands -- 5. Summary -- Concluding Observations -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Names -- Index of Organizations
Summary: Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps. In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands alone over 750 men, women and children undertook such dramatic escape attempts, despite the extraordinary uncertainty and physical danger they often faced. Drawing upon extensive interviews and a wealth of new historical evidence, Escapees gives a fascinating collective account of this hitherto neglected form of resistance to Nazi persecution.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportations from Western Europe -- 2. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in France -- 3. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in Belgium -- 4. Escapes by Jews from Deportation Trains in the Netherlands -- 5. Summary -- Concluding Observations -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Names -- Index of Organizations

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Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps. In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands alone over 750 men, women and children undertook such dramatic escape attempts, despite the extraordinary uncertainty and physical danger they often faced. Drawing upon extensive interviews and a wealth of new historical evidence, Escapees gives a fascinating collective account of this hitherto neglected form of resistance to Nazi persecution.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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