{"product_id":"9780813586618","title":"Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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: \u003cb\u003e\"Give us our husbands back.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a week protesters vied with the Gestapo for control  of the street. Now and again armed SS guards sent the women scrambling  for cover with threats that they would shoot. After a week the Gestapo  released these Jews, almost all of whom survived the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rosenstrasse Protest was the triumphant climax of ten years of  resistance by intermarried couples to Nazi efforts to destroy their  families. In fact, ninety-eight percent of German Jews who did not go  into hiding and who survived Nazism lived in mixed marriages. Why did  Hitler give in to the protesters? Using interviews with survivors and  thousands of Nazi records never before examined in detail, Nathan  Stoltzfus identifies the power of a special type of resistance--the  determination to risk one's own life for the life of loved ones. A  \"resistance of the heart...\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123838206192,"sku":"9780813586618","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813586618_p0.jpg?v=1763743918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813586618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}