An American Quaker Inside Nazi Germany
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An American Quaker Inside Nazi Germany
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Author : Leonard Stout Kenworthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
An American Quaker Inside Nazi Germany written by Leonard Stout Kenworthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Quakers categories.
Another Dimension Of The Holocaust
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Author : Leonard Stout Kenworthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Another Dimension Of The Holocaust written by Leonard Stout Kenworthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Germany categories.
Quakers And Nazis
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Author : Hans A. Schmitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Quakers And Nazis written by Hans A. Schmitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Why the title Quakers and Nazis, not Quakers against Nazis? Was not hostility part of the interaction between the two groups? On the contrary, Hans A. Schmitt's compelling story describes American, British, and German Quakers' attempts to mitigate the suffering among not only victims of Nazism but Nazi sympathizers in Austria and Lithuania as well. With numerous poignant illustrations of the pressure and social cost involved in being a Quaker from 1933 to 1945, Quakers and Nazis: Inner Light in Outer Darkness reveals a facet of Nazi Germany that is entirely unknown to most people. The book focuses on the heroic acts foreign and German Quakers performed under the Nazi regime, offering fully documented and original information regarding the Quakers' commitment to nonviolence and the relief of the victims. Schmitt's narrative reveals the stress and tension of the situation. How should a Quaker behave in a meeting for worship with a policeman present? Spies did not stop Friends in worship services from openly criticizing Hitler and Göring, but Nazis did inflict torment on Friends. Yet Friends did not, could not, respond in like manner. Olga Halle was one Friend who worked to get people, mostly Jews, out of Germany until America entered the war. When emigration was outlawed, twenty-eight were stranded. Years later her distress was still so deep that even on her deathbed she recited their names. Schmitt reminds us that virtually all the Berlin Quakers secreted Jews throughout the war. He shows how these brave Quakers opposed the Nazis even after they lost their jobs and had been harassed by the Gestapo. Risking their lives, the Friends persisted in their efforts to alleviate suffering. At a time when the scholarly world is divided as to whether all Germans knew and approved of the Final Solution, this book makes a valuable contribution to the discussion. Quakers--despite their small numbers--played, and continue to play, an important role in twentieth-century humanitarian relief. Quakers and Nazis: Inner Light in Outer Darkness, a study of how Friends performed under the extreme pressure of a totalitarian regime, will add significantly to our general understanding of Quaker and German history.
American Quaker Resistance To War 1917 1973
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Author : Isaac Barnes May
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-07-04
American Quaker Resistance To War 1917 1973 written by Isaac Barnes May and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-04 with Religion categories.
This historical survey of Quakers in the United States and their responses to war from World War I through the Vietnam conflict demonstrates that Quakers' responses to war resulted from internal struggles and the influence of the state.
Quakers In Nazi Germany
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Author : Michael Seadle
language : en
Publisher: Progressive Pub
Release Date : 1978
Quakers In Nazi Germany written by Michael Seadle and has been published by Progressive Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Church and state categories.
Jews Quakers And The Holocaust
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Author : Ira Zornberg
language : en
Publisher: IRA Zornberg
Release Date : 2016-09-05
Jews Quakers And The Holocaust written by Ira Zornberg and has been published by IRA Zornberg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-05 with categories.
By spring of 1939, after the Night of the Broken Glass (more commonly referred to as Kristallnacht), German Jews were desperate to escape what they had considered their Fatherland. Unable to find nations willing to accept them, many parents begged for the assistance of those who would help in transporting their children to safety. Other children who could have been saved were those of fathers in concentration camps or those who parents had taken their own lives. Because of the special role in feeding German children at the end of World War I, Quakers commanded a level of respect and trust which allowed them to assume the leadership in an effort to save Jewish children. At least a third of those identified, in Nazi Germany, as Jewish children by race (having on Jewish grandparent) may have been of mixed religious backgrounds. In Europe, Quaker groups assumed leadership in what came to be called the Kindertransport. They removed and provided homes for nearly 10,000 children. On the day after Kristallnacht, a Quaker fact-finding mission from the U.S. flew to Germany. An effort to replicate the Kindertransport in the U.S. depended upon the passage of the Wagner-Rogers Bill. That Bill, introduced in Congress in February 1939, provided for the admission of 20,000 "unaccompanied children" (outside of the quota of 27,000 per year from Germany) under the age of fourteen, over a two-year period, and at no cost to the United States. The struggle to enact the Wagner-Rogers Bill introduces us to people in the United States who assumed leadership roles in that effort. It identifies virulent opponents, and allows us to speculate as to what best explains the failure of the Bill to become law.
American Quaker Romances
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Author : Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: Universitat de València
Release Date : 2021-12-20
American Quaker Romances written by Carolina Fernández Rodríguez and has been published by Universitat de València this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.
Thoughts Are Free
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Author : Anna Sabine Halle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-06-01
Thoughts Are Free written by Anna Sabine Halle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-06-01 with Church and state categories.
Quiet Helpers
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Author : Achim von Borries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Quiet Helpers written by Achim von Borries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Germany categories.
The Politics Of Service
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Author : Daniel Maul
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-07-22
The Politics Of Service written by Daniel Maul and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-22 with History categories.
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a humanitarian sector both within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the history of humanitarianism in the 20th century: Following the AFSCs aid operations from the First World War, through post-war Germany and Soviet Russia to the Spanish Civil War and into the Second World War, it deals with the AFSC’s conflicting roles as a specifically American aid organization on the one hand and its position within transnational religious and pacifist networks on the other and it opens a window to processes of professionalization, the development of a humanitarian “market place” and the complex relationship of religious and secular strands in the history of international relief.