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

by Gitman, Esther

• ISBN13: 9781557788948
• ISBN10: 1557788944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-03
• Publisher: Atlas Books

Summary

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 Prevailedexamines the ways Jews were rescued and survived in a country which the Ustase, 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.

Author Biography

Esther Gitman pursued her Ph.D. in Jewish Studies on the foundation of a successful business career. She sought to Understand the circumstances of the rescue and survival, including her own, of Jews from the Nazis and Ustae (Croatian fascists). Gitman returned to Sarajevo in. 1945 and then moved to Israel in 1948. After the Six-Day War in 1967 she and her husband relocated to Canada. Since 1972 Gitman has lived in the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Guide to Croatian and Bosnian Pronunciations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Map of Yugoslavia and Neighbors	p. xxviii
The Unification of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, 1918-1941	p. 1
The Usta¿e Rule of Terror Against Jews and Their Rescue by Ordinary Citizens	p. 27
NDH Officials Approve ôExceptionsö	p. 67
Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb Confronts Antisemitism and Totalitarianism, 1941-1945	p. 93
The Rescue of the Jews by the Italians, 1941-1943	p. 127
Partisan Rescuers Confront Anglo-American Diplomacy	p. 159
Summary and Conclusions	p. 187
Appendices	p. 195
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 267
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