Introduction: Why are heroes important? -- What was the Holocaust? -- Oskar Schindler: a kind Nazi -- Raoul Wallenberg: a man of the world; a man with a mission -- Vladka Meed: between two worlds -- Andre Trocme: "We will not betray them" -- Hannah Senesh: poet, parachutist, partisan -- Jan Karski: if only they would listen.
Summary:
Profiles six individuals, some Jewish and some Gentile, who acted heroically in opposing the Nazi persecution of Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.
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