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There was plenty of motivation for people not suffering in the holocaust to try and help the Jews who were. In some areas, the Nazis would only take the men and teenagers, and the family members left behind felt it to be their responsibility to help out. People who did not believe or support in the Nazi conquest helped Jews as a simple rebellion against the Nazis. "We are all different; because of that, each of us has something different and special to offer and each and every one of us can make a difference by not being indifferent." - Henry Friedman. This quote shows how some people felt they had a responsibility to help the imprisoned Jews. [|Rescue]

Johanna Nuemann was a survivor of the holocaust, who was not taken into a concentration camp because family friends of theirs. She described how these Gentiles (the Pilkins) helped them because they were generally kind people, and they wanted to help out, even though they were only neighbors. Mrs. Pilkin was actually a German herself, but sympathized with the suffering Jews. Johanna described her as having a humanistic view towards everyone. This would probably echo the feelings of most of the other Gentiles. Mark Strauss also described that his gentile didn't believe in the killing of other people. It is safe to say that the Gentiles motivations for helping the Jews were pure. J[|ohanna Neuman Transcript]

“Żegota is the story of extraordinary heroism amidst unique depravity – compelling in its human as well as historical dimensions.” [|Zbigniew Brzeziński.]This quote describes the act of the most prominent Gentile helping organization as an act of extraordinary heroism. But, since they did not go around telling people they were harboring Jews, most of the people who saved so many Jews remained nameless, without drawing attention to the people they saved. So, obviously, this was not done for the sake of being a hero.

"I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family." ~Frances Wright. The Gentiles though of it as their duty not as a member of any sort of specific class, race, or belief, but as a duty as as human being not to remain indifferent to the struggles of other humans. "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you." ~[|Bernard Malamud]. This quote shows that the Jews should be grateful to the Gentile efforts, which is true, but the Gentiles did it not to be heroes, but because it was their morals to help a person that was in need, no matter what their belief or difference was.

[|Johanna Neuman Transcript] [|Rescue] ~ Seth

This is a picture of a Jewish girl named and the Turkins with an Entire Gentile couple from Poland named Ewa and Mikolaj Turkin that agreed to take her in during the holocaust, she was sent to them by her mother from the Dabrowa ghetto, her mother was killed in the evacuation days later.[|Goldbum]