The Story of an Underground: Resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War
The great historian of the Holocaust Raul Hilberg famously argued that, in the face of their destruction, the Jews offered almost no resistance. “On a European-wide scale,” he wrote, “the Jews had no resistance organization, no blueprint for armed action.” The perpetrators consequently lost no more...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-353 |
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| Summary: | The great historian of the Holocaust Raul Hilberg famously argued that, in the face of their destruction, the Jews offered almost no resistance. “On a European-wide scale,” he wrote, “the Jews had no resistance organization, no blueprint for armed action.” The perpetrators consequently lost no more than a few hundred men during the course of their murder of millions.1 Hilberg attributed Jewish behavior during the Shoah to the established Jewish tradition of petitioning local authorities for relief in difficult situations. Although it would be impossible to deny Hilberg's numbers, his explanation of Jewish behavior is questionable. It is fair to say that most historians of the topic would not agree with Hilberg's early formulation. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw035 |