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resolute heroes: the rescue of jews during the nazi occupation of europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

federico varese  and
meir yaish
federico varese
Affiliation:
university of oxford, oxford [[email protected]]
meir yaish
Affiliation:
university of haifa, israel [[email protected]]
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Abstract

in 1927, at the age of eighteen, jean kowalyk moved to the ukrainian village of czortowiec, where she worked as a seamstress. when the germans invaded in 1941, they brought to the village forced laborers to build a work camp. jean “watched the cruelty [done to the workers] day after day […] when i saw people being molested, my religious heart whispered to me, ‘do not kill. love others as you love yourself’”. some time later, she heard a knock on her door. when she opened it, solomon berger, a jewish doctor the family knew, was “on his knees”, put his arms around her legs, and “begged for help”. jean let him in and hid him – along with several others – behind a false wall until the end of the war (1).

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note critique
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 2005 , pp. 153 - 168
Copyright
2005 archives européennes de sociology

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