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Gay Block and Malka Drucker
  Jewish refugees from France and the Netherlands make their way from France into Spain through a pass in the Pyrenees mountain range. They are being rescued by "Dutch-Paris," an organization created by Seventh-day Adventist Johan Weidner. Ca. 1940.
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Books

Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw T. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Christian’s Testimony. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.

 

 

Block, Gay, and Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1992.

Landau, Elaine. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

 

 

Laska, Vera. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983.

 

 

Lazare, Lucien. Rescue as Resistance : How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides Of The Wall: Memoirs From The Warsaw Ghetto. Washington, D.C.: USHMM, 1993.

Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1991.

Moore, Bob, ed. Resistance in Western Europe New York: Berg, 2000.

Nicholson, Michael, and David Winner. Raoul Wallenberg. Ridgefield, Conn.: Morehouse, 1990.

Stadtler, Bea. The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance. West Orange, N.J.: Behrman House, 1994.

Tec, Nechama. Defiance: The Bielski Partisans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Film

Anne Frank: The Whole Story. [videorecording] / 2001. Based on Melissa Muller's book, Anne Frank: A Biography. Directed by Robert Dornhelm. Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Seen on ABC.

The Courage to Care. 1986. [videorecording] / 1986 Oscar Nominee for Best Short Documentary.

Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust. [videorecording] / produced and directed by Barbara Attie and Martha Goell Lubell. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1999.

Flames in the Ashes, [videorecording] / Ghetto Fighters House, Teuda Films ; a film by Haim Gouri, Jacquot Ehrlich. Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media Inc., 1987.

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris; produced by Deborah Oppenheimer. 2000. Warner Bros. Winner of 2000 Oscar for Documentary Feature.

It Was Nothing, It Was Everything: Reflections on the Rescue of Greek Jews during the Holocaust, [videorecording] / a co-production of Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Heroes and Remembrances Authority, Jerusalem, 1997.

The Optimists: the Life and Times of the Bulgarian Jews and their Rescue during the Holocaust, [videorecording] / Jacky Comforty. Evanston, Ill. : Comforty Mediaconcepts, 1990.

Partisans of Vilna, [videorecording] / Ciesla Foundation ; director, Josh Waletzky ; producer, Aviva Kempner. Washington, D.C. : Euro-American Home Video, 1987.

Weapons of the Spirit, [videorecording] / Pierre Sauvage Productions and Friends of Le Chambon, Inc. ; produced, written and directed by Pierre Sauvage.
1988.

 


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