»Der vergessene Widerstand. Jüdinnen und Juden im Kampf gegen den Holocaust« — Buchvorstellung mit Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt

In the organizer's words:

The memory of the mass murder of the European Jews ordered by the National Socialist regime is essentially determined by the images used time and again: Long columns of people being driven defenselessly towards death by armed members of the SS. What is often forgotten: In the vast majority of cases, these images were taken from the side of the perpetrators, showing their perspective - indeed, the perspective that the perpetrators wanted to capture. Stephan Lehnstaedt, Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro University in Berlin since 2016, has long been recognized as an expert, particularly on the history of discrimination, persecution and murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime. Not least the criminal German occupation policy in Poland since 1939 is one of his areas of specialization. In his new book, he draws attention to the long-neglected resistance of Jewish actors against persecution and extermination. This took very different forms - it included, for example, the dissemination of news that was unwanted by the occupying forces and could even extend to armed struggle in larger formations. Lehnstaedt thus makes an important correction to the overall picture of the Holocaust.

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