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To: Yaelle
Yaelle, I am so glad your father lived --- and you came to be!.

I read a book years ago called "The Rescuers," about mostly German and Polish people who saved neighbors and even complete unknowns at the time of the Shoah. The most striking thing to me was that they did not have to struggle with their decision. Most of them said they thought about it 5 or 10 minutes before they acted, maybe they consulted their husband or wife; some simply acted instantly to do the right thing.

These were folks who were taught from earliest childhood by their parents to "be good to people," and who saw their parents "being good." It was precept; but even moreso, it was example. They grew up knowing, "This is what you do, of course. You see a need, you respond."

They were unaware that they heroes. They were amazed that everybody didn't think and do the same.

12 posted on 03/23/2013 3:39:11 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I highly recommend this movie....

I believe it is available on iTunes.

23 posted on 03/23/2013 6:33:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank you. I had a coworker in Switzerland whose dad, before he was born, had been a Swiss “Schindler” and gotten German Jews hired in his company in Switzerland. There are almost as many hero stories as evil stories about the Holocaust. Nuns, priests, all kinds of people risked their lives to save, hide, and smuggle people out. One family I know was put aboard a freight train to Spain to make it to the Americas. The employee who got them out was caught and he (a Christian) was sent to a concentration camp himself.


26 posted on 03/23/2013 9:30:46 PM PDT by Yaelle
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