Survivors : Jewish self-help and rescue in Nazi-occupied Western Europe / Bob Moore.

Author: Moore, Bob, 1954-

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Descriptionxv, 512 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Note:Escape in the first months -- The chaos of May-June 1940 -- Diplomats as rescuers -- Vladimir Vochoc -- Private enterprise -- Quakers, YMCA and the coordination committee -- Fleeing the captor : escape from France and the Low Countries -- Pilots and prisoners of war -- Smugglers and new forms of contraband -- Dutch-Paris -- The Westerweel Group -- Escapee stories -- Swedish havens. Escape from Norway ; The icon of rescue : escape from Denmark -- Rescue and hiding in France. Jewish resistance and self-help -- The era of deportations -- Rescue in Paris and the occupied zone -- Survival in the Vichy zone -- The Nimes Committee and its operations -- The Quakers -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and other Protestant communities -- Dieulefit -- Protection in the Italian Zone -- "Other" Jews -- Conclusion : survival in France -- Jewish self-help in Belgium -- The Jews of Belgium their Christian neighbours -- Jewish self-help -- Direct action : the twentieth convoy -- Non-Jewish rescuers in Belgium -- Helping hands -- The Catholic Church -- Rescuers among the demi-monde -- A country divided -- The catastrophe of Dutch Jewry -- Jewish community leadership -- Self-help and individual rescuers -- The first networks -- Too little, too late : organized resistance and rescue -- Organized help -- Friesland and Groningen -- Overijssel and Drenthe -- Limburg -- The "Philips Jews" -- Conclusions -- Suffer the little children ... -- Children as a special case -- Saving Jewish children : France -- Saving Jewish children : Belgium -- At the eleventh hour : saving Jewish children in the Netherlands -- Rescue networks : the role of student societies and illegal newspapers -- The crche at the Schouwburg -- Widening participation : the networks in the provinces -- Finding homes --The darker side of rescue -- Nazi rescuers and Jewish traitors -- Nazis as rescuers -- Self-help : salvation through treason.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-496) and index.

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