Staging Resistance from the Clergy During the Holocaust
The resistance to the Holocaust from Catholic and Protestant clergymen came in myriad forms. A few clergy willingly gave up their lives, thus becoming martyrs for refusing to be judged by Nazi law, surrendering instead to divine justice. Such noble and heroic decisions in which a humble person surre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-401 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Stein, Edith, Female saint 1891-1942
/ Kolbe, Maksymilian Maria, Saint 1894-1941
/ Jews
/ Resistance
/ Martyr
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality NCB Personal ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Martyrdom
Holocaust resistance
Edith Stein
Arthur Giron
David Gooderson
Maximilian Kolbe
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The resistance to the Holocaust from Catholic and Protestant clergymen came in myriad forms. A few clergy willingly gave up their lives, thus becoming martyrs for refusing to be judged by Nazi law, surrendering instead to divine justice. Such noble and heroic decisions in which a humble person surrenders life in defiance of a totalitarian regime opposed to Christian humanism is a subject most worthy of study. This essay focuses exclusively on stage representations of the extreme sacrifices the clergy made during the Holocaust as reflected by martyrdom in Arthur Giron’s Edith Stein and David Gooderson’s Kolbe’s Gift. The protagonists of these two plays, Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, died and suffered greatly to uphold the moral position of the Church. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02103004 |