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Poles Who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust: Recalling Forgotten History / Polacy ratujacy Zydow w czasie Zaglady: Przywracanie pamieci (English & Polish edition) - Softcover
Synopsis
"The Holocaust was the most horrible atrocity ever committed by man. Not only people were being killed. The memory of Jewish culture, customs and language was also being annihilated. Cemeteries were destroyed, synagogues burned. Ghetto walls, crematoriums and gas chambers were built in their place. Man invented the most cruel ways of inflicting pain on another man. But it was also man who constructed a hiding place in a barn or cowshed, extended a helping hand, gave his cloak to the needy and served a bowl of soup. A great deal has already been said and written about the heroism of the Righteous Among the Nations. Yet there are thousands of names. They need to be recalled. No one must be omitted. Each of the Righteous has their own story of sacrifice, fear, heroism and ordinary anxiety for themselves and their family. It was only in Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine that hiding Jews was punishable by death. Historians write of more than eight hundred Poles murdered for helping Jews. The discovery of the hiding place meant death not only for the rescuers and rescued, but sometimes also for the residents of the village or tenement house where the hiding was taking place. [..] The Righteous are modest. They do not use great words; they give their accounts - focussed, quiet. They unfold their stories slowly. They often repeat that they saved others because that is what they had been taught at home: how could you refuse to help somebody in need? Let us take a look at these portraits, a careful look at the people who saved the world. Each of them has something of his or her own to tell us. We will hear memories of the Nazi occupation, but also tales about ourselves, about our choices, questions and dilemmas. The Righteous remind us that even in the most extreme of circumstances decency has the power to confront evil." (from the Preface by Bronislaw Komorowski, The President of Poland)
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- PublisherChancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland & Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 8393599458
- ISBN 13 9788393599455
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages129
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