Staging Resistance from the Clergy During the Holocaust

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" Staging Resistance from the Clergy During the Holocaust "
Gene A. Plunka

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081857
Doc. No	:	LA125486
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02103004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Gene A. Plunka
Title & Author	:	Staging Resistance from the Clergy During the Holocaust [Article]\ Gene A. Plunka
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/3
Page No	:	378–401
Abstract	:	The resistance to the Holocaust from Catholic and Protestant clergymen came in myriad forms. A few clergy willingly gave up their lives, thus becoming martyrs for refusing to be judged by Nazi law, surrendering instead to divine justice. Such noble and heroic decisions in which a humble person surrenders life in defiance of a totalitarian regime opposed to Christian humanism is a subject most worthy of study. This essay focuses exclusively on stage representations of the extreme sacrifices the clergy made during the Holocaust as reflected by martyrdom in Arthur Giron’s Edith Stein and David Gooderson’s Kolbe’s Gift. The protagonists of these two plays, Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, died and suffered greatly to uphold the moral position of the Church. The resistance to the Holocaust from Catholic and Protestant clergymen came in myriad forms. A few clergy willingly gave up their lives, thus becoming martyrs for refusing to be judged by Nazi law, surrendering instead to divine justice. Such noble and heroic decisions in which a humble person surrenders life in defiance of a totalitarian regime opposed to Christian humanism is a subject most worthy of study. This essay focuses exclusively on stage representations of the extreme sacrifices the clergy made during the Holocaust as reflected by martyrdom in Arthur Giron’s Edith Stein and David Gooderson’s Kolbe’s Gift. The protagonists of these two plays, Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, died and suffered greatly to uphold the moral position of the Church.
Descriptor	:	Arthur Giron
Descriptor	:	David Gooderson
Descriptor	:	Edith Stein
Descriptor	:	Holocaust resistance
Descriptor	:	Martyrdom
Descriptor	:	Maximilian Kolbe
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02103004‬