Quakers And Nazis
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A Quaker Couple In Nazi Germany
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Author : Brenda Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-01-01
A Quaker Couple In Nazi Germany written by Brenda Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Germany 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.
The Peacemakers Trilogy
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Author : Anna Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Peacemakers Trilogy written by Anna Schmidt and has been published by Barbour Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Fiction categories.
A collection of three novels by Anna Schmidt takes readers into war torn Europe during World War II, along with characters who exhibit an unwavering Quaker faith, strong family connections, and the conviction to stand for the truth against evil. Will three couple’s love, forged amid great hardship, stand a chance. . .if they even survive all the Nazis throw at them?
Houses On The Sand
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Author : James Irvin Lichti
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Houses On The Sand written by James Irvin Lichti and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"Under Hitler, Germany's state-linked provincial churches functioned as seedbeds of nationalism. A smaller and independent church form - the "free church" or denomination - offered greater promise of nonconformity. Linked by pacifist traditions, German Mennonites, Seventh-day Adventists, and Quakers promoted a range of liberal principles: empowerment of the individual conscience, respect for confessional diversity, and separation of church and state. Nonetheless, two of these denominations used these same principles to defend and even embrace the Nazi regime. This book examines what makes Christian communities - when meeting the harsh challenges of modernity - viable entities of faith or hollow forms."--BOOK JACKET.
All God S Children
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Author : Anna Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Shiloh Run Press
Release Date : 2014-05-14
All God S Children written by Anna Schmidt and has been published by Shiloh Run Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with FICTION categories.
In Nazi Germany, Beth Bridgewater, a Quaker pacifist, and Josef Buch, a passionate German Patriot, join together in nonviolent resistance and--against all odds--in love.
The Winter Rose
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Author : Melanie Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-01-11
The Winter Rose written by Melanie Dobson and has been published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Fiction categories.
In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More than fifty years after they disappear, Addie Hoult arrives at Tonquin Lake, hoping to find the Tonquin family. For Addie, the mystery is a matter of life and death for her beloved mentor Charlie, who is battling a genetic disease. Though Charlie refuses to discuss his ties to the elusive Tonquins, finding them is the only way to save his life and mend the wounds from his broken past.