When Courage Prevailed: The Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945 - Softcover

Gitman, Esther

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9781557788948: When Courage Prevailed: The Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945

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ISBN 10: 1557788944 ISBN 13: 9781557788948

Publisher: Paragon House, 2011

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A historical study of the treatment of Jews in Yugoslavia after Nazi ideology was adopted, with an emphasis on the ways Jews survived and were rescued by those who put their own lives in great peril. When Courage Prevailed examines the ways Jews were rescued and survived in a country which the Ustaše, with their roots in Yugoslavia's nationality conflicts and politics, adopted the Nazi ideology which emphasized that there could be no compromise in regard to the Jewish Question and the Final Solution: no Jews deserved rescue. Survival of Jews was complicated by Yugoslavia's dismemberment at the hands of the Axis Powers; Germany and Italy and its satellites and puppets. The Nazi propaganda machine advocated that Jews must be exterminated for the good of the Aryans which included the Volksdeutsche, (Yugoslav of German ancestry), the Croats and the Muslims. Those who dared to defy German commands suffered severe penalties.

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A historical study of the treatment of Jews in Yugoslavia after Nazi ideology was adopted.

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When Courage Prevailed examines the ways Jews were rescued and how they survived in a country in which the Ustase, with their roots in Yugoslavia's nationality conflicts and politics, adopted the Nazi ideology that emphasized that there could be no compromise in regard to the Jewish Question: no Jews deserved rescue. Survival of Jews was complicated by Yugoslavia's dismemberment at the hands of the Axis Powers: Germany and Italy and their satellites and puppets. The Nazi propaganda machine advocated that Jews be exterminated for the good of the Aryans, which included the Volksdeutsche (Yugoslav of German ancestry), the Croats, and the Muslims.

Those who dared to defy German commands suffered severe penalties. To survive, a Jew had to be brave, resourceful, and willing to seize every opportunity for escape, and each one would owe a debt of gratitude to as many as twenty helpers. Entire villages hid Jewish children. Friends and neighbors appealed to the Ministry of the Interior. Employers and employees beseeched the Ministry of Finance to obtain the release of Jewish workers, employers, and managers from concentration camps. Many efforts entailed great risk. This book reveals the practical and ethical motives animating rescue.

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