for the Jews and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came Lesson Objective:
for the communists To illustrate how certain individuals and I under the Nazi regime were able to did not speak out aid Jewish resistance and save lives. - because I was During the Holocaust, many millions of people not a were murdered because of who they were. In communist. many cases nobody stood up and told the Nazis that what they were doing was immoral and Then they came wrong. Sadly, few Jews were rescued from their for terrible fate. the trade unionists There were, however, a relatively small number of non-Jewish people who recognized what was and I did not happening to European Jews and were prepared speak to risk their lives in order to try and save others, out - because I or oppose the Nazi regime.
Raoul Wallenburg – A Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of
Jews in Hungary by issuing passes for them to leave the country to avoid the Nazis. Varian Fry - An American who rescued thousands of Jews from France with his partisan team based in Marseilles. Oskar Schindler - He took over 1000 Jewish prisoners from Krakow to his factory, protecting them from almost certain death. Sempo Sugihara - He ruined his political career in Japan when he was the ambassador in Lithuania. As he witnessed the Nazi treatment of the Jews he issued thousands of visas allowing Jews to escape to the Far East. His country was not happy.
“ I looked at all those people clinging to
the iron fences of the consulate begging for visas, and I thought I just had to do something for them. In pure joy they would fall to their knees in thanks. I was so inspired by the sight that I worked non- stop for a month writing visas’.
Sophie Scholl - Sophie and her brother, Hans, began a German
resistance movement in 1942 called the White Rose. They gave out anti-Nazi leaflets but were caught and executed. DVD – Watch the clip of Oskar Schindler leaving his factory at the end of the war.