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Article: Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust.
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- Monthly Review
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- March 1, 1993
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Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust by Gay Block and Malka Drucker. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1992. 255 pp. $49.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
As the twentieth century comes to a close, we begin to look back at the major events, developments, and movements by which future generations will characterize and comprehend its political history--the two world wars, the Russian and Chinese revolutions, the anti-colonial wars in the south, the liberation movements among people of color in the Americas and Africa, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc, and of course the Holocaust, the systematic slaughter of six million innocents by the very ...