Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

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In this brilliantly researched and insightfulbook, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compellingstories of rescuers of Jews during theHolocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of theirmotivations. Based on her extensive experience as atherapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust andthose who helped them, Fogelman delves into thepsychology of altruism, illuminating why theserescuers chose to act while others simply stood by.While analyzing motivations, Conscience AndCourage tells the stories of suchlittle-known individuals as Stefnaia PodgorskaBurzminska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in herhome; Alexander Roslan, a dealer in the blackmarket who kept uprooting his family to shelter threeJewish children in his care, as well as moreheralded individuals such as Oskar Schindler, RaoulWallenberg, and Miep Gies. Speaking to the sameaudience that flocked to Steven Spielberg's AcademyAward-winning movie, Schindler'sList, Conscience And Courage is thefirst book to go beyond the stories to answer thequestion: Why did theyhelp?