Marcia Esparza is sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP).Carla De Ycaza teaches at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and serves as editor of Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University.

The least noticed aspect of genocide is the courageous resistance that is often put up to save the victims. This collection shows how victims were helped during Cold War violence in Latin American countries including Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The rich exploration of historical cases enhances our general understanding of "rescue", showing that it is not just a matter of bystander intervention but of solidarity among victims. This is an important collection that deserves a wide readership.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Remember the Rescuers in Latin America?Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernanChapter 1: Rescued From Fear: The Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture in ChileChristopher NeyChapter 2: Bending the Rules: An Ambassador's Quest to Save LivesPascale BonnefoyChapter 3: The Santo Tomás Chichicastenango's Municipal Firefighters: "Green Pines Covering the Dead Bodies"Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy SanandresChapter 4: Strategic Rescue Responses to Genocide: The Guatemalan CaseRoddy BrettChapter 5: Between Memory and Oblivion: The Cases of Eureka and AfademIsabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam RodriguezChapter 6: From Rescue to Solidarity: (Re) Humanizing Relationships for Social TransformationJenny Escobar and Angie TamayoChapter 7: Argentine Rescuers: A Study on the "Banality of Good"Jessica CasiroConclusion: On the Moral Value of Rescue and Remembering Rescuers: Conceptualizing Rescue in the Latin American ContextJeffrey BlusteinAbout the Contributors and Editors

Marcia Esparza is sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP).Carla De Ycaza teaches at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and serves as editor of Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University.

The least noticed aspect of genocide is the courageous resistance that is often put up to save the victims. This collection shows how victims were helped during Cold War violence in Latin American countries including Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The rich exploration of historical cases enhances our general understanding of "rescue", showing that it is not just a matter of bystander intervention but of solidarity among victims. This is an important collection that deserves a wide readership.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Remember the Rescuers in Latin America?Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernanChapter 1: Rescued From Fear: The Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture in ChileChristopher NeyChapter 2: Bending the Rules: An Ambassador's Quest to Save LivesPascale BonnefoyChapter 3: The Santo Tomás Chichicastenango's Municipal Firefighters: "Green Pines Covering the Dead Bodies"Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy SanandresChapter 4: Strategic Rescue Responses to Genocide: The Guatemalan CaseRoddy BrettChapter 5: Between Memory and Oblivion: The Cases of Eureka and AfademIsabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam RodriguezChapter 6: From Rescue to Solidarity: (Re) Humanizing Relationships for Social TransformationJenny Escobar and Angie TamayoChapter 7: Argentine Rescuers: A Study on the "Banality of Good"Jessica CasiroConclusion: On the Moral Value of Rescue and Remembering Rescuers: Conceptualizing Rescue in the Latin American ContextJeffrey BlusteinAbout the Contributors and Editors

Marcia Esparza is sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP).Carla De Ycaza teaches at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and serves as editor of Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University.

The least noticed aspect of genocide is the courageous resistance that is often put up to save the victims. This collection shows how victims were helped during Cold War violence in Latin American countries including Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The rich exploration of historical cases enhances our general understanding of "rescue", showing that it is not just a matter of bystander intervention but of solidarity among victims. This is an important collection that deserves a wide readership.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Remember the Rescuers in Latin America?Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernanChapter 1: Rescued From Fear: The Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture in ChileChristopher NeyChapter 2: Bending the Rules: An Ambassador's Quest to Save LivesPascale BonnefoyChapter 3: The Santo Tomás Chichicastenango's Municipal Firefighters: "Green Pines Covering the Dead Bodies"Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy SanandresChapter 4: Strategic Rescue Responses to Genocide: The Guatemalan CaseRoddy BrettChapter 5: Between Memory and Oblivion: The Cases of Eureka and AfademIsabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam RodriguezChapter 6: From Rescue to Solidarity: (Re) Humanizing Relationships for Social TransformationJenny Escobar and Angie TamayoChapter 7: Argentine Rescuers: A Study on the "Banality of Good"Jessica CasiroConclusion: On the Moral Value of Rescue and Remembering Rescuers: Conceptualizing Rescue in the Latin American ContextJeffrey BlusteinAbout the Contributors and Editors