HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Altruism, Personal Stories and Helping Jews in Europe during Holocaust

In this brilliantly researched and insightfulnbsp;nbsp;book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compellingnbsp;nbsp;stories of rescuers of Jews during thenbsp;nbsp;Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of theirnbsp;nbsp;motivations. Based on her extensive experience as anbsp;nbsp;therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust andnbsp;nbsp;those who helped them, Fogelman delves into thenbsp;nbsp;psychology of altruism, illuminating why thesenbsp;nbsp;rescuers chose to act while others simply stood by.nbsp;nbsp;While analyzing motivations, Conscience Andnbsp;nbsp;Courage tells the stories of suchnbsp;nbsp;little-known individuals as Stefnaia Podgorskanbsp;nbsp;Burzminska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in hernbsp;nbsp;home; Alexander Roslan, a dealer in the blacknbsp;nbsp;market who kept uprooting his family to shelter threenbsp;nbsp;Jewish children in his care, as well as morenbsp;nbsp;heralded individuals such as Oskar Schindler, Raoulnbsp;nbsp;Wallenberg, and Miep Gies. Speaking to the samenbsp;nbsp;audience that flocked to Steven Spielberg's Academynbsp;nbsp;Award-winning movie, Schindler'snbsp;nbsp;List, Conscience And Courage is thenbsp;nbsp;first book to go beyond the stories to answer thenbsp;nbsp;question: Why did theynbsp;nbsp;help?

"The Path of The Righteous by Mordecai Paldiel recounts the inspiring stories of several hundred "Righteous Among the Nations" - heroic gentile men and women, in virtually all the countries of Nazi-occupied Europe, who put themselves and their families at risk in order to save the lives of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Drawn from the files of Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel, these stories are a badly needed corrective to the pessimistic view of human nature which has become all too common in the Holocaust's aftermath. They prove that decency, morality, and altruism can survive even under the most horrendous of circumstances, and that some people will always be willing to act selflessly. It also serves to disprove the cruel lie being promulgated by some that the Holocaust never took place, or did not take place as described in eye witness accounts." "The courageous individuals whose tales are recounted in this book are monuments to the nobility of the human spirit. They did what they did not for the sake of reward or prestige, but because they believed it was right. Some of them were pious Christians motivated by religion. Others were energized by feelings of intense compassion. Neither the threat of punishment nor ostracism by relatives and neighbors deterred them. Love for their fellow human beings was a higher value." "The book contains a foreword by Rabbi Harold Schulweis, founding chairman of the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers/ADL, and an afterword by Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor who was saved by his Polish nursemaid, poignantly express their recognition of and gratitude to the untold numbers of righteous gentiles, many of whom will never be known by us."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved