Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue

Publication | Denmark | July 2013

Anders Jerichow, Konstanty Gebert, Annette Wieviorka, Richard Breitman, Anthony Georgieff, and others

In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.

Two Trees in Jerusalem

Publication | Germany | July 2015

Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen

Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.

The Banality of Genocide

Article | Poland

Konstanty Gebert