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Obres de Gay Block

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BLOCK, Gay
Gènere
female
Llocs de residència
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Professions
photographer
Premis i honors
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries.A landmark volume that includes maps, historic photographs from family collections, a comprehensive Introduction by Malka Drucker, and a Prologue by Cynthia Ozick and Faces: An Afterword by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis and Gay Block’s color portraits of the rescuers, shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1992.… (més)
 
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petervanbeveren | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jun 4, 2020 |
Film documentario che presenta le testimonianze dei soccorritori ebrei in Polonia, Olanda, Ungheria, Belgio, Germania, Francia, Cecoslovacchia e Ucraina. Raccontano le loro motivazioni e i pericoli che sono stati coinvolti nelle loro attività di salvataggio e si nascondono dalla persecuzione nazista.
 
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MemorialSardoShoahDL | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jul 25, 2018 |
Testimonianze di giusti tra le nazioni.
 
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MemorialSardoShoahDL | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 4, 2018 |
 
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BlueSkyGallery | Aug 23, 2012 |

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5
Membres
201
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#109,507
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4.1
Ressenyes
5
ISBN
7
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1

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