Resistance of the heart : intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse protest in Nazi Germany
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Resistance of the heart : intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse protest in Nazi Germany
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In February 1943, the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of those Jews, however, had non-Jewish partners and were locked into a collection center on a street called Rosenstrasse. As news of the surprise arrest pulsed through the city, hundreds of Gentile spouses, mostly women, hurried to the Rosenstrasse in protest. A chant broke out: "Give us our husbands back."
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Nathan Stoltzfus