PRESENTATION OUTLINE
RESCUERS OF THE HOLOCAUST
What is a Rescuer?
What do you call people who help others? Some people may answer back firefighters, the police, the army, heroes. But what about ordinary people?
Thesis
In the years of the Holocaust, rescuers, people who thought that genocide was inhuman, saved thousands of Jews.
People
Not all people who rescued the Jews were of the Jewish population, some were even German. Since not all Germans' liked the idea of genocide, race killing, they would go in dressed like they were a part of the Nazi Army and smuggle small children out of the camps.
Groups
The resistance groups didn't like the idea of killing people just because of what race they are.
There were so many resistance groups that didn't like the Nazis the top ten groups were Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Hungry, Demark, Italy, Greece, and Belgium. These groups were in and out of camps trying to get children and babies out of there.
Jewish Army
The Jewish Army only consist of Jews as the name Jewish Army would suggest. People that were a part of the Jewish Army were very brave men.
Because the stakes are higher for Jews than any other person they took very high cushions when going into Death Camps to rescue their friends and family. The Jewish Army was not as active as some of the other groups during the Holocaust in fear that they would be captured.
When the Jewish Army got their friends and family out of the camps they put them into Spain, where the Germans did not have any power, to keep them safe.
Zegota
Zegota is a Polish group that saved Jews during the Holocaust. The Zegota Army saved thousands and thousands of Jewish children and got the into safe places.
When they were moving Jews out of Germany, which was a difficult and long process, they would provide them with fake birth certificate papers and lots of fake money.
After getting Jews to safe places if they were a part of a church they would hide the Jews in churches and bring them food a water every day, orphanages, and/or convents. If the Polish person who rescued you wasn't in a church then they would hide you in attics, cellars, barns, and in underground bunkers.
Danish Resistance Group
The Danish Resistance Group were from Demark. The Danish Resistance Group ferried, transport by water, Jews to Sweden were the Nazi Party had no control.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies is one of the most remembered rescuers. In 1909 Miep Gies was born and 1918, when World War I was over, her parents sent her to the Netherlands. When it was time for her to move back home she didn’t want to leave.
Miep wanted to stay there with her Dutch family, so when she asked her parents they gave her permission to stay there with family.
In 1933, Miep Gies got a job as a sectary in Opekta, which was a trading company for making jams, for Otto Frank. After working with Otto for a while he decided that Miep should meet his wife and two kids.
After they met, Miep and her boyfriend Jan visited the family often. When the Holocaust started Meip said that she would help the Frank family. For two years Miep Gies hid the Frank family in her house.
Feng-Shan Ho
Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved an approximant two thousand Jews.
Feng-Shan Ho was constantly sending out visas to send Jewish people to Shanghai. He did this for a long amount of time. Feng-Shan Ho had to stop when he arrived back in China in 1840.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a catholic social worker who's specialty was Social Welfare who was from Poland.
She was a part of the Polish Underground escape and the Zegota Polish anti Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. During the time that she was smuggling people out of the camps she saved at least two thousand five hundred Jewish children and babies.
The Nazis would call her in to check the children often when a typhoid disease broke out. The Nazis were afraid of this because they didn’t want to get sick and die.
Every time she went she took suitcases, bags, and went in an ambulance. When she went she wore the star of David, which showed the Jewish children that she was there to help them and not hurt them.
When Irena Sendler went she tried to smuggle as many children and babies as possible. She would put small children in the suitcases and babies in the bags to get them into the ambulance and take them to safety.
Why Did the Rescuers do what They Did?
All the rescuers had something in common and that was that they all believed that genocide was wrong and immortal.
Some people had more personal reasons to help and save Jews. Some people may of done it because they felt sorry for the innocent children and babies that they felt like they had to do something about it.
All of them are heroes even the ones that we don't remember.
