When courage prevailed
Subtitle: the rescue and survival of Jews in the independent state of Croatia, 1941-1945
By: by Esther Gitman
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781557788948
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Jews; Rescue; Persecutions; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Ethnic relations; History
Other titles: Rescue and survival of Jews in the independent state of Croatia, 1941-1945
Description: "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 peril"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Yugoslavia in the interwar period, 1918-1941; title: Rescue by ordinary citizens; title: NDH officials approve exceptions; title: Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb confronts racism, 1941-1945; title: Rescue by Italian soldiers, diplomats, and ordinary citizens; title: Rescue by the partisans.