Think about the terms “help” and rescue.” What is the difference between these two terms? In the context of the Holocaust, how do you understand the difference between these two terms?
My definition of Help is to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need. My definition of rescue is to free. The difference between the two is that help would be like when a person can't do anything and needs someone to do it for them an assistant. Rescue is when you free someone or when someone is at the point of dying and people save their live. In the Holocaust help would be when non-Jews give Jews clothes, shelter, and food. Rescue would be like if someone helps them hide during the Holocaust and survive the Holocaust that is my definition of help and rescue. In the movie The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman was hiding in a Nazis headquarters and one Nazi noticed he was there and he gave him food, a knife, and a jacket. That would be help for me. In a story called Courage : Marion Pritchard, Miek, a friend of the family had built a hiding place under the floor for four Jews. Then one night three Germans and a Dutch Nazi came to search a house they failed to find any Jews they left and the came back half and hour later but failed to find anyone. The family hid there and survived and Marion Pritchard approximately saved 150 Jewish children during the Holocaust. That is my definition of rescue.
I like your definitions, they make sense to me. How do we know when to help people and which people to help? Do you know people who need help? Can you help them without embarrassing them? During the holocaust, help wouldn't be embarrassing, but in less extreme situations it could be. We think of rescue as freeing someone from physical danger or harm. What about rescuing people from friendlessness or some other mental anguish?
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