Rescuers During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. During this brutal time in history, rescuers, who were non-Jewish civilians attempted to help Jews and other oppressed groups in spite of the many dangers it put them in. Resistors who were both part of non-Jewish and Jewish groups, tried to stunt the progression of the Nazi army. Liberators were soldiers who came to the camps, and saved as many people as they could. In an entirety, most people remained bystanders out of fear of what would happen to them and their families. While they were unsuccessful in stopping the Nazi regime, they assisted and aided a lot of the people amidst the life threatening risks; all the more making them heroes.
They attempted to help the Jews in a variety of ways. For example, some would hide them in their homes and feed them. Women like Klara Bai, Lois Gunden, Irena Sendler, and Antonina Gordey took Jewish children as their own, and did all that they could to give them normal lives. Men with money and power, like Oskar Schindler, would sometimes intervene on behalf of the Jews through bribery, and other methods. Danish fishermen would hide Jews in their boats. Within a two-week period, they helped ferry about 7,200 Jews to safety. Unfortunately, most of the rescuers were caught and killed. As rescuers evidently sacrificed their lives to keep Jews alive, resisters would fight to overthrow the Nazi regime. One of the most noted attempts was by a small group of German politicians, who plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Non- Jews bombed the Nazi, and successfully killed some. In the ghettos, Jews