The authors presents “a sampling of actions, efforts, and heroism with the hope that [she] can play a role in helping to correct the damaging and persistent belief that Jews ‘went like sheep to the slaughter....... More

From Yad Vashem: Before being forced to leave Kovno, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara rescued approximately 6,000 Jews, whose lives were threatened by the impending invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany....... More

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Hannah Szenes was in her early twenties when she left the relative safety of her new home in what is now Israel to parachute into Yugoslavia to help free Jews there and in her native Hungary....... More

The Holocaust, Resistance, Courage, Israel, Pursuing Justice More

A small, Protestant town in the plateau region of South Central France became an example of faith and courage during World War II when the citizens sheltered thousands of refugees, most of them Jewish, and protected them from the Nazis. More

In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Nazis by a series of neighbors and friends who risked their lives to keep her alive when her parents had been taken to concentration camps....... More

“A Story of Rescue” focuses on the courage and compassion of individuals who had “the courage to care....... More