Women defying Hitler: rescue and resistance under the Nazis

Explores the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need and victimisation under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying attention to the differences that gender made, it examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Also addresses the problems of memory and historiography of women's history during World War II and features standpoints of historians as well as voices of survivors and their descendants.