Gender perspectives on the rescue of Jews in Poland: preliminary observations

There have been very few analytical studies on the role of women in both the rescue and the betrayal of Jewish fugitives during the Holocaust. This chapter is not a gender analysis of the subject, but a discussiion of the difficulties of studying it from a gender perspective. It focuses on 'dedicated rescuers', those individuals who went beyond the call of duty to save Jews without profiting from their actions or taking advantage of their charges