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The hand of compassion : portraits of moral choice during the Holocaust / Kristen Renwick Monroe

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	Zitierlink
Medienart	[Buch]
Signatur	VII.5. Monro 708
Verfasser	Monroe, Kristen Renwick
Titel	The hand of compassion : portraits of moral choice during the Holocaust / Kristen Renwick Monroe
Veröffentlichung	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004
Umfang / Format	XVIII, 361 Seiten
Sprache	Englisch
Land	USA
ISBN	0-691-11863-9
Schlagwörter	Schoa
Systematik	VII.5. Philosophie / Religion / Wissenschaft / Autoren
Fremdkurzreferat	Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations - such as religion or reason - but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, to them, literally unimaginable. At the heart of this unusual book are the interviews with the rescuers, complex human beings from all parts of the Third Reich and all walks of life: Margot, a wealthy German who saved Jews while in exile in Holland; Otto, a German living in Prague who saved more than 100 Jews and provides surprising information about the plot to kill Hitler; John, a Dutchman on the Gestapo's ""Most Wanted List""; Irene, a Polish student who hid eighteen Jews in the home of the German major for whom she was keeping house; and Knud, a wartime policeman who took part in the extraordinary rescue of 85 percent of Denmark's Jews. We listen as the rescuers themselves.

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