Would you save a Jewish Family?


For anyone who is a Christian or non-Jew, think about this. If you lived in WWII Eourope and had Jewish friends would you help save them even if the punishment for hidding a Jew ment death? Even if you were one of their few or only gentile friends who could help them, would you do it?

I have Jewish friends that I have known since I was a baby and they have been almost like family. We have watched each other grow up together and particapated in special events through out our lives. I thought about this topic a few times. If my family and the Silverman family lived during the time of the Holocaust, would we have helped our friends out even if it ment risking our own lives? I took a lot of the things that are sanifficant to us today and applied it to the past.

Most of the friends the Silverman's have are Jewish and my family is one of the few gentile friends they have.

Another factor that I considered was that their only daughter has Downs Syndrome, another no no on what the Nazis considered as pure or not pure. Ok Jewish and has Downs. That's not good!

The other thing that I considered was my family's own morality. What do we consider to be moral and right. Would we become frightened like a lot of gentiles were at the time. Fearing our own deaths. Would we be selfish and say "NO, we are not going to help you because we are afread of getting killed" and then turn our backs on our friends? What kind of frind is that? Or would we have a big heart and hide our friends and cheat death at the same time? After some thought, knowing my parents, who have big hearts and who like do the right thing, we would probably risk it and help save our friends from death. We would probably do it for the sake of their daughter and we would do everything we could to save her and her family.

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I would saved a Jewish family even if it meant that I had to risk my life.

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For one, we'd also probably be targets. There's both a gay person and a mentally handicapped person in my family, and we're not exactly ethnically pure (and almost all of my family has dark hair, eyes, and skin). I would've wanted to save a Jewish family, and my parents would sympathize, but they wouldn't want to put our lives in danger for another family. We'd also have to worry about my little sister blabbing. BUT, if I were an adult (I'm only 14 right now), than I would definitely help hide Jewish people, despite the risk.


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I think that it is very easy for all (or most) of us to answer, "Yes, of course I would save a Jewish family." But when it really came down to it, I doubt that many of us would. When we are facing death, the loss of our family and loved ones, etc., we might think differently. I certainly hope that I would be strong enough to risk my everything to do what is right. It's easy to say, while we are in the comfort of our own homes, that we would do the right thing. It's not so simple when we actually must face the prospect of losing everything we love.

With that said, I certainly hope I would be morally strong enough to do the right thing and do everything in my power to save someone.

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Yes, if I didn't have a family. But I do, and I have to look after them and I'm sure I couldn't put them in such danger.

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Without a doubt, most definitely.

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id like to think i would/could help in some way or another but as with others on here it would depend on the circumstances

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It depends. I don't know.

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I'm not really sure. I mean, don't get me wrong please. I have Jewish friends, and one of my favorite teachers is Jewish, and I'm a very nice person, but I don't think I could risk the lives of my family for that. It depends on the circumstances.

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I would definitively help them,i probably even would have been in the Dutch Resistance...

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hi im a muslim and yes id defanetly help a jewish family the holocaust was babaric and was mass genocide chosen by the nazis if they wernt stopped after the killing of all jews tehy would begin killing anouther race ,Im not a violent individual but after reading many accounts of the nazis barbaric practices i all ways used to daydream of somehow transporting thier with future war fare weapons and destroying these monsters and eneimies of our jewish brothers after the defeat id round up every natzi and nazi collaborator and torture them in grand and horrific ways beyond the bearing of pain . the best would be saved for himmeler , eichman and the fuher mr hitler . id give anything to torture this evil monster antichrist and dajjal;

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If I were alive back then, I hope I would have had the guts to save a Jewish family (or any other target family, or person).

On a sidenote I want to point out something.

When the Frank family were caught, Miep Gies and Bep Voskijul (sp?) were caught too, but they weren't killed (or put into a camp, for all I know).

What happened there?

I guess I haven't done enough research into this.

-Amanda

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