Notes

SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE WHITE ROSE

The indictment against the Scholls and Christopher Probst is contained in Appendix 3 of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007, pages 207–13.

Somebody had to make a start!: Dumbach and Newborn, 157.

Who among us: First White Rose leaflet.

If a state prevents: First White Rose leaflet.

these days it is better: The Home Front: Germany by Charles Whiting. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1982, 1990, page 108.

The reasons for sending the leaflets to German intellectuals are taken from Dr. George Wittenstein’s Memories of the White Rose.

Sophie was its heart: Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose by Toby Axelrod, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2001, page 62.

Scholl lives!: Dumbach and Newborn, 163.

MARIA VON MALTZAN: THE COUNTESS WHO HID JEWS

For God’s sake, Marushka: The Last Jews in Berlin, 136–37.

I love this country: Last Jews, 191.

If you’re sure: Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, 156.

You’re to hide: Last Jews, 187–88.

IRENE GUT: “ONLY A YOUNG GIRL”

Irene Gut: “Only a Young Girl.”

Whoever helps a Jew: In My Hands, 105.

You’re only a young girl: In My Hands, 121.

Definition of Judenrein from “Aryanization: Leibensraum, Germanization,

Judenrein,” www.shoaheducation.com/aryan.html.

I trusted you!: Rescuers, 194.

No!: Rescuers, 194.

IRENA SENDLER: LIFE IN A JAR

Your name isn’t Rachel: Stories of Deliverance: Speaking With Men and Women Who Rescued Jews From the Holocaust, 10.

Where did the friend hide the lists during Irena’s arrest? In Stories of Deliverance, page 10, it says that the friend hid the lists in the sleeves of her robe. But later, Irena told the “Life in a Jar” girls that the friend hid the lists in her bra. Irena actually saw posters: The Irena Sendler Project (www.IrenaSendler.org).

STEFANIA PODGORSKA: THE TEEN WHO HID THIRTEEN

Conscience and Courage, page 88, says that Stefania was “almost 13” years old when she moved to Przemysl, but in her interview included in Rescuers page 207, she claims that she was 14 at the time.

I can’t leave my children!: Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, 90.

It’s Joseph: Conscience and Courage, 92.

Maybe someone will be: Conscience and Courage, 95.

So you’re protecting us: Conscience and Courage, 95.

That is my new boyfriend: Rescuers, 184.

she was too young: Conscience and Courage, 102.

MARIE-MADELEINE FOURCADE: “ONLY A WOMAN”

I’m only a woman!… I’d rather serve: Noah’s Ark, 26.

The information regarding the map the Alliance provided the Allies is taken from page 138 of Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses edited by Vera Laska, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983.

ANDRÉE VIROT: AGENT ROSE

This upsets you: Miracles Do Happen, 11.

This last mission: Miracles, 35.

Take that woman’s number: Miracles, 73.

Take courage: Miracles, 81.

The Americans are at the gates: Miracles, 86.

JOSEPHINE BAKER: SPY SINGER

France has made me: Naked at the Feast: The Biography of Josephine Baker, 217.

We are informed … : The Josephine Baker Story, 222

I think that monsieur l’officier: The Josephine Baker Story, 222.

Often I knew: Naked at the Feast, 233.

MAGDA TROCMÉ: WIFE, MOTHER, TEACHER, RESCUER

Well, come in!: Telephone conversation with Nelly Trocmé Hewett, April 25, 2009.

I never close my door: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There, 153.

We don’t know Jews: Telephone conversation with Nelly Trocmé Hewett, April 25, 2009.

We always said: The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, 104.

The duty of Christians: We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France During the Holocaust, xix.

Why me?… not my wife: Trocmé family documents, letter to Yad Vashem.

DIET EMAN: COURIER FOR THE DUTCH RESISTANCE

If it is at all possible: Things We Couldn’t Say, 186.

storm the gates of heaven: Things We Couldn’t Say, 268.

I have done nothing else: Things We Couldn’t Say, 279.

HANNIE SCHAFT: THE SYMBOL OF THE RESISTANCE

Now!: Not Then, 89.

We are no: Not Then, 178.

I messed up: Not Then, 102.

Oh, Jan: Not Then, 103.

I am a much better: Not Then, 184.

JOHTJE VOS: A GROUP EFFORT

I’m burying a dead rabbit: Living Histories video interview.

That’s quite an honorable: The End of the Tunnel, 80.

If you only trust me: The End of the Tunnel, 83.

Patriots, you are free!: Living Histories video interview.

CORRIE TEN BOOM: WATCHMAKER, RESCUER, RECONCILER

It is wrong to give people hope: The Hiding Place, 64.

Haarlem’s Grand Old Man: The Hiding Place, 10.

Those poor people: The Hiding Place, 71.

What?… Your name!: The Hiding Place, 127.

Tell me now…: The Hiding Place, 127.

If there’s a secret room: The Hiding Place, 131.

All the watches: The Hiding Place, 152.

one normal person: The Hiding Place, 157.

than a watchmaker: The Hiding Place, 157.

ANDRÉE DE JONGH: THE COMET LINE

Story of initial run through the Somme River: Little Cyclone, 19–20.

Regarding the number of people on the trial run of the Comet Line, page 119 of Silent Heroes mentions that the group comprised 13 men while page 19 of Little Cyclone mentions that the group was made of 10 Belgian men and 1 woman.

You’ll see what we’ll do: BBC/News/Europe/Airmen Remember Comet Line http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/988881.stm.

I am a Belgian: Little Cyclone, 13–15.

The number of Allied servicemen rescued on the Comet Line: Masters of the Air, 101, Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground, 145.

HORTENSE DAMAN: PARTISAN COURIER

I’ll give you one last chance: Child at War: The True Story of a Young Belgian Resistance Fighter, 188–89.

It’s vital that you: Child at War, 113–14.

My word, that is: Child at War, 117–20.

FERNANDE KEUFGENS: THE TEEN WITH THE BOLD VOICE

Oui, c’est ca: Girl in the Belgian Resistance: A Wakeful Eye in the Underground, 68.

Halt!: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 68.

Never show fear: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 68.

Can you not read: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 68.

Rause!: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 69.

You can’t hold up: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 74.

No time, but: Girl in the Belgian Resistance, 74.

All excerpts from Girl in the Belgian Resistance reprinted by permission of Fernande K. Davis and Beach Lloyd Publishers, LLC, P.O. Box 2183, Southeastern, PA 19399–2183.

PART VI: DENMARK

Numerical breakdown of Denmark’s Jews, Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews, 20–21.

MONICA WICHFELD:

IRISH HEROINE OF THE DANISH RESISTANCE

As I have joined the struggle: Monica, 159.

You are obviously pro-Allies?: Monica, 161.

Two of my brothers: Monica, 161.

EBBA LUND: THE GIRL WITH THE RED CAP

We’ve been occupied!: Darkness over Denmark, 7.

Numbers regarding Frit danmark: Darkness over Denmark, 36–37.

Nazi edict of August 28, 1943: Resistance Fighter: A Personal History of the Danish Resistance Movement, 64–65.

Account of German soldiers hesitant to impede rescue operations is found on pages 102–3 of Resistance Fighter and page 85 of Darkness Over Denmark. not a Jewish problem: “Girl in Red Cap,” San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage. www.jewishsightseeing.com/denmark/copenhagen/1994-01-14_red_cap_girl.htm.

NANCY WAKE: THE WHITE MOUSE

I resolved there and then: The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called The White Mouse, 4.

Do you want to search moi?: Nancy Wake: The Inspiring Story of One of the War’s Greatest Heroines, 239.

No, Mademoiselle: Nancy Wake, 239.

On page 135 of Nancy Wake’s memoir, The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called The White Mouse, Nancy notes that the 500-kilometer bike ride was the accomplishment that gave her the most pride. The reason for the discrepancy (sometimes it’s noted as 400 and sometimes 500) is that Nancy’s original destination was 200 kilometers away, and if she had returned directly, the entire trip would have indeed been 400 kilometers. But her return route was not direct, and the resultant trip was 500 kilometers as notated in her memoir.

PEARL WITHERINGTON:

THE COURIER WHO BECAME A LEADER

If I had not: Pauline Parachutée en 1943, 58 (from an English translation being prepared).

VIRGINIA HALL: THE MOST DANGEROUS ALLIED AGENT

The woman who limps: “We Must Find and Destroy Her,” www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030127/27heyday.hall.htm

MURIEL PHILLIPS: U.S. ARMY NURSE

Muriel’s letter describing buzz bombs is taken from Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock by Muriel P. Engelman, World War II Army Nurse, retired RN. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2008, page 96. Used by permission of Muriel P. Engelman.

MARLENE DIETRICH: “THE ONLY IMPORTANT THING”

Queen of German film: Marlene, 90.

Do I rightly understand: Marlene, 91.

Not just “no,” but “never”: Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend, 231.

Deserts Her Native Land: Life and Legend, 231.

Shirt-sleeved judge administers oath: Life and Legend, 232.

I was born a German: Marlene, 216–17.

“Lili Marlene”: Goebbels banned the song from civilian airwaves, but an attempt to keep it off German military radio failed. Field Marshall Rommel, the beloved German Wehrmacht leader stationed in North Africa, liked it so much he requested it be played via radio for his troops every night. It then became popular with the British soldiers in North Africa and was translated into English. It became an international hit song of the war.

Boys, don’t sacrifice yourselves!: Life and Legend, 292.

the only important thing: Life and Legend, 287.

MARIA GULOVICH: SLOVAK FOR THE OSS

I want to tell you: Maria Gulovich: OSS Heroine of World War II: The Schoolteacher Who Saved Lives in Slovakia, 128.

You Americans are the brave ones: Maria Gulovich, 128.

You stay with the Americans: Maria Gulovich, 75.

The dangers you courageously: Maria Gulovich, 244–45.

MARTHA GELLHORN: WAR CORRESPONDENT

If you must be a writer: Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, 20.

Red swine dogs: Gellhorn, 99, 106.

People will be writing: Face of War, 110–11.

If anyone had come: Face of War, 119.

What had been a man: Face of War, 184.

We sat in that room: Face of War, 185.