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BOOK reviews571 soon saw as more threatening than the toleration of above-ground religious groups,which at least it could control. The book offers striking evidence of the determination of the Soviet authorities to damage religion. One is struck by the extraordinary dedication to detail of Soviet ideologues in their effort to control and, where and when possible, weaken religion. On the other hand, the book also produces compelling evidence by implication of the persistent influence of religion in the lives of the people. The choice was between ideology or religion, and both had believers and supporters. Although the Soviet Union is gone, the choice really has not changed much at the end of the twentieth century for the former Soviet people or, for that matter , for people in general. In our increasingly interdependent world, where men and women are torn from their traditional ways of life, it is clear from the experience of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and now the former Yugoslavia that secular ideologies will destabilize and destroy civilized communities. Religion has its own checkered history of intolerance and dogmatism and in the wrong hands can be manipulated to wreak havoc as destructive and destabilizing as ideology. But in the hands of genuine believers and spiritual leaders religion is a force for harmony and stability. Religion is perhaps our best hope for peace and co-operation as we enter the age of globalization, and we can only pray that the major religions can work together to meet the challenge of divisive ideology and help produce a global community united in its support ofthe dignity of man. Dennis J. Dunn Southwest Texas State University Cries in the Night, Women Who Challenged the Holocaust. By Michael Phayer and Eva Fleischner. (Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward. 1997. Pp. xxi, 153. $15.95 paperback.) The history of the Holocaust, until recently, has paid little attention to those that defied Hitler and the Nazis and sought to save Jews. And while the evils perpetrated by the Nazi criminals should never be forgotten or diminished, there is room for honoring those who risked their lives to come to the aid of the Jews. Cries in the Night is the story of seven Catholic women,motivated by a sense of compassion and justice and prepared to subject themselves to bodily injury, imprisonment, and even the possibility of death in order to saveJewish families from being murdered. The accounts are both revealing and inspiring because they describe what they did for the Jews in spite of the indifference of many clergymen and important public officials, and ofthe moral ambiguity ofthe Vat- 572book reviews The story ofthese women begins in Poland,where the Holocaust took place. The Polish nun, Mother Mytlda Getter, saved hundreds oforphanedJewish children and many adults. In Berlin a social service worker,Margaret Sommer,began protecting Jews who had converted to Catholicism, but ended up saving many non-converts. In Hungary Margaret Slachta, a member of the Sisters of Social Service, tried to stop the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the ldlling camps. The book also contains several chapters about three French women who risked their lives to aid theJews. Germaine Ribière, a university student in Paris, refused to be a bystander when the Jews began to be rounded up by the Gestapo in May, 1941. She joined the Amitié Chrétienne, an organization of Protestants and Catholics who helped the Jewish victims of Nazism and Vichy. Marie Rose Gineste, whom the authors dubbed "the woman with the bicycle," crisscrossed the diocese on her bicycle to deliver a pastoral letter by her bishop condemning the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazi occupation forces. Germaine Bocquet provided a hiding place forJules Isaac. Much later Isaac was instrumental in persuading Pope John XXIII to put the Church's relation to Judaism on the agenda of the Second Vatican Council. Dr. Gertrud Luckner, whose courageous efforts to save Jews resulted in sharing the fate of Nazi victims in Ravensbruck, spent two years experiencing lice, filth, human degradation , and the stench of cremation. After the war she helped thousands of displacedJews from the camps find places to live. The courage of these women was offset by...

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