PROGRAM 002 – THE HELP STORY
Jewish Death Camp prisoners assigned by the SS to meet Jews as they first arrived by train. Expected to quickly collect the luggage of the new arrivals and remove dead bodies out of the cattle cars, the prisoners were under strict orders not to communicate in any way with the discharged passengers. Facing execution if caught, some of the prisoners defied orders and passed along life-saving advice. This is their story.
CREDITS
Arthur B. Shostak – Author, Professor of Sociology and Futurist
RESOURCES
Stealth Altruism
Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust (Amazon Page to Purchase Book - Royalties Go
to the Children's Holocaust Museum in Israel.)
Facing History and Ourselves
Jonathan Blaustein, NY Times (2018) Risking Torture and Death to Save Jews During the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
USC Shoah Visual History Archive (over 55,000 video testimonies about genocidal events - the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Genocide in Rwanda, the Nanjing Massacre, the Guatemalan Genocide, the Cambodian Genocide, the ongoing South Sudan Civil War, the Central Africa Republic conflict, and anti-Rohingya Mass Violence, Northern Syria)
