Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Heroes


     
                                                           

Think about the terms “help” and rescue.”  What is the difference between these two terms?  In the context of the Holocaust, how do you understand the difference between these two terms?  Can you think of a specific time when help was needed rather than rescue, and of times when Jews needed to be rescued?  Would you characterize those individuals who helped Jews as heroes?  Why or why not?

The difference between those two terms is that when someone helps you they help you because you are in a harm or because you can't do it on your own. Rescue is when you are trapped somewhere you do not want to be and someone comes for you and takes you away from where you are. In the article they said “A Hungarian officer provided water and helped when his Jewish prisoners tired on a long march” (Rescuing Jews reading). They needed help because they were going to dehydrate of how they were walking without drinking water in a hot day. Jews needed to be rescued right when they got in camps or before they went to camps because some were sent straight to the gas chambers and you don't want to see people die for no good reason. People who helped Jews are heroes because they just saved a persons life and isn't that what heroes do. They are really brave for doing that and the people who helped Jews should be recognized.

4 comments:

  1. Good job in telling the difference between help and rescue. Sometimes people can only help even though rescuing is needed. The giving of help could give more time for rescuing to happen.

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  2. Help & rescue are different. Your example of the Hungarian officer providing help is spot on. Those who rescued Jews saved their lives. There were many people who helped Jews but could not possibly save them.

    Bob Spielman

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  3. You make a good point with them needing water or they would dehydrate but they you don't need to be hydrated in order to march.

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  4. I agree when you said that the Jews needed to be rescued when they first entered the camps.

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