The Heart Has Reasons
Book description
"You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you....Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So declares rescuer Hetty Voûte in this updated edition of THE HEART HAS REASONS, an acclaimed historical account that offers an in-depth look into the hearts and minds of the Holocaust rescuers and…
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This fascinating account offers an in-depth look into the hearts and minds of ten Dutch people who saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Less than 1 percent, 55,000 Dutch citizens stood up to the Nazis with active resistance, shouldering the responsibility of saving 140,000 innocent people. As he interviews rescuers, Mr. Klepner, himself a child of a Holocaust survivor, comes to understand the circumstances that led rescuers to make the choices to risk their lives to save Jews.
From Celia's list on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.
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