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The Holocaust came to an end. Lot’s of people were gone, but the countries that saved them were given thanks all around. Happiness soon spread across the globe again, knowing that the war was over, defeating Hitler and the Nazis. These people who saved them are still memorable to this day.
Rescuers for the Holocaust came from all around the world, almost every religious background: Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Muslim. Even some European churches, orphanages, and families gave and provided hiding places for the Jewish, and in some cases, some people who had their own homes aided Jews already in hiding. In France, the village with the population of Protestant, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon kept between 3,000 and 5,000 refugees, most of them Jewish. In France and Belgium, they had these underground networks run by Catholic clergy and Catholics that belonged to the church, saved thousands of people (https://www.ushmm.org).
Many people also used their personal influence to rescue Jews. In Budapest, the capital of German occupied Hungary, a Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenburg, Swiss diplomat, Carl Lutz, and an Italian citizen Giorgio Perlasca, provided over 10,000 Jews in 1944 with certification that they were under the “protection” of neutral powers. These people were nice enough to give these poor Jewish people freedom by a certificate. People around the world were doing these acts of kindness to get people where they belong (https://www.ushmm.org).
US-based groups had also engaged in some rescues during the Holocaust. The Quakers’ American Friends Service Committee, The Unitarians, and other groups coordinated relief activities for the Jewish refugees to kind of wash themselves up, eat something, sleep, and do some activities to kind of get their minds of where they had just been rescued from. These places were mostly in France, Portugal, and Spain throughout the war. A range of US-based organizations were involved in securing entry visas into the United States and arranging placement for the refugees (https://www.ushmm.org).
To conclude, the rescuers that saved the refugees involved, whether they save 100, or 100,000, they still changed and benefitted the people that were saved. These people had raised hope for the people, knowing that they might find their mother or father again. Just knowing that someone was there, willing to help out with anything they could to make the world the better again, makes a big difference in people’s lives, everywhere.
Rescuers for the Holocaust came from all around the world, almost every religious background: Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Muslim. Even some European churches, orphanages, and families gave and provided hiding places for the Jewish, and in some cases, some people who had their own homes aided Jews already in hiding. In France, the village with the population of Protestant, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon kept between 3,000 and 5,000 refugees, most of them Jewish. In France and Belgium, they had these underground networks run by Catholic clergy and Catholics that belonged to the church, saved thousands of people (https://www.ushmm.org).
Many people also used their personal influence to rescue Jews. In Budapest, the capital of German occupied Hungary, a Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenburg, Swiss diplomat, Carl Lutz, and an Italian citizen Giorgio Perlasca, provided over 10,000 Jews in 1944 with certification that they were under the “protection” of neutral powers. These people were nice enough to give these poor Jewish people freedom by a certificate. People around the world were doing these acts of kindness to get people where they belong (https://www.ushmm.org).
US-based groups had also engaged in some rescues during the Holocaust. The Quakers’ American Friends Service Committee, The Unitarians, and other groups coordinated relief activities for the Jewish refugees to kind of wash themselves up, eat something, sleep, and do some activities to kind of get their minds of where they had just been rescued from. These places were mostly in France, Portugal, and Spain throughout the war. A range of US-based organizations were involved in securing entry visas into the United States and arranging placement for the refugees (https://www.ushmm.org).
To conclude, the rescuers that saved the refugees involved, whether they save 100, or 100,000, they still changed and benefitted the people that were saved. These people had raised hope for the people, knowing that they might find their mother or father again. Just knowing that someone was there, willing to help out with anything they could to make the world the better again, makes a big difference in people’s lives, everywhere.