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Judith Tydor Baumel,
“Through A Woman’s Eye,” review article on Nechama Tec, Resilience
and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust.
Nehama Tec
has written a fascinating book that focuses on the lives of men and
women during the Holocaust, based on interviews that she conducted
over the course of a decade. Although the book deals with gender,
she does not dilute the centrality of the Jewish experience in order
to concentrate upon the gendered one. Resilience and Courage is
divided into eight chapters, each dealing with a different facet of
Jewish men’s and women’s experiences during the Holocaust, or
examining them in a separate geographical locale. Tec deals
primarily with Eastern Europe and major chapters in the book focus
upon “Life in the Ghetto”, “Leaving the Ghetto”, “The Concentration
Camps”, “Hiding and Passing in the Forbidden Christian World”, and
“Resistance”. These chapters concentrate mainly on the experiences
of Jews in Eastern Europe. There are also discussions of life in
camps in Central Europe. |
