Contributors: Lund University, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Departments, Department of History, History, Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna, Institutioner, Historiska institutionen, Historia, Originator
نبذة مختصرة : This essay does not claim to be a gender and quantitative analysis of rescue. Its modest aim is to discuss complexities and difficulties of studying the subject of rescue of Jews in wartime Poland from a gender perspective. The initial analysis put forward here is intended to investigate to what extent gender mattered in the treatment of the non-Jewish Polish rescuers by members of their local communities during and after the war. The essay demonstrates how the use of the category of gender in the study of rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland can facilitate an in-depth analysis of the nature of rescue of adult and young Jewish fugitives in everyday settings. Gender as a tool of analysis can also throw new light on dangers and betrayal of rescuers within the local social environment. This essay also argues that gender should be explored in relation not only to objective factors such as the age, socio-economic background and religiosity of rescuers, but also in relation to more subjective factors such as internal dynamics in marriages and individual family practices, the individual system of beliefs, and parental and sexual desires of married, widowed and single male and female rescuers.
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