Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis, Susan Elisabeth Subak (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), xxix + 310 pp., cloth 40.00
Three Americans have been honored as Righteous Among the Nations. The first is Varian Fry, well-known ever since his activities were first highlighted in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The other two, Martha and Waitstill Sharp, are a Unitarian couple who defied the Nazis beginning in 1...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 476-478 |
| Review of: | Rescue & flight (Lincoln [u.a.] : University of Nebraska Press, 2010) (Vromen, Suzanne)
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| Summary: | Three Americans have been honored as Righteous Among the Nations. The first is Varian Fry, well-known ever since his activities were first highlighted in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The other two, Martha and Waitstill Sharp, are a Unitarian couple who defied the Nazis beginning in 1939 and established vital rescue networks under the auspices of the Unitarian Service Committee (USC). The Sharps helped thousands to escape. The author of the work under review, Susan Subak, had a personal reason for choosing her book's topic: her father was rescued by Elizabeth and Robert Dexter, the founders of the Committee. The Dexters issued him an affidavit—the first one they ever wrote—enabling him to emigrate from Austria to the United States before the outbreak of World War II. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr056 |