The Rescuers

potentially save the life of a Jewish child, but finding these hiding places could be hard. People that were up to the challenge of taking a child into hiding usually asked the family for money since it was such a risky process (Greenfield 33). If the family wasn’t able to give the money that was being asked for, the person would back out of helping to save the child. One of the factors that could help determine where and if a child was able to be hidden had to do with whether the family had close relations with an Anti-Nazi practicer (Greenfield 33). More often than not, a hiding place was found purely by chance (Greenfield 33). Once a hiding place was found, the actual hiding process of a child began. There were different ways that a rescuer could hide a child that they had taken in. Sometimes, they were physically hidden, such…

Single Sea Foam to Married Mermaid The original The Little Mermaid, written by Hans Christian Andersen, and the Disney version are closer than I had first thought. It turns out that Disney had only changed the ending to fit the Disney-fication process, besides adding music. The original piece isn’t as sad as thought. I’m glad I got to actually sit down and read Andersen’s version of The Little Mermaid. Both versions of The Little Mermaid follow the six-step formula for a Shakespearean comedy.…

Emily Gregson, SOCI 1101/13, Feature Film Analysis The movie I choose is The Little Mermaid, it was released on November 15th, 1989. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions in the United States and was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. OVERVIEW/RELEVANCE OF THE FEATURE FILM The movie was based off of a Danish story written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837. The writers, like in many other animated Disney movies, wanted to take a fun twist on what was originally a very dark fairy…

If rescuers weren't allowed to risk their lives for people it would be chaos, then firefighters would not be able to get close to an fire, police would not be able to get close to stop someone from committing a crime, and even doctors and people in ambulances because they could get contaminated with what their patients have. Without people to risk their lives for others our country would not be able to run. Rescuers should be able to save people if they are in danger even if it risks their…

Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers From the day a person is born until the day they die that person is constantly making choices. Everything that person does is a choice. Some choices are made easily and do not effect one’s life for more than a few moments, but some choices are different. Some choices that a person comes across in their lifetime will determine who that person becomes. These are the ethical dilemmas that can change a person’s life and lives of people around them.…

Rescuers of the Holocaust Courage, sacrifice, discipline, memorization, and detail are only some of the words to describe people that risked their lives for Jews. Many of them were Christians who came from every religious background: Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Muslim. (USHMM Rescue) Sometimes one individual would take on the risk of providing for the Jews they wanted to hide. Rescuers played a key role in the Holocaust, but they did face many challenges, risk being caught, and…

The victim-rescuer persecution (VRP) triangle a psychological model used to explain the roles of the victim and responders spiraling is destructive patterns during a crisis. It is oddly known as the drama triangle that negatively cause a riff in relief effort. Within each unique dynamics, each individual or group display negative positions such as the following: co-dependent, self-blaming, and victim-blaming often spinning from one to another. These hindrance characteristic are often…

William worked in the United Nations, she migrated to the United States of America married Opdyke and had a daughter. “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong” is the first book that I ever read that made me cry. When I was little, I used to get bored of reading after a while and almost never finish a book. However, after reading this book and crying I wondered if all books were like this one. In My Hands gave me a new love for books and history. …

Rittner, Carol, and Sondra Myers. The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York: New York UP, 1986. Print. “The Courage to Care” by Carol Rittner, is a book about non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and provide shelter for Jews from Nazi persecution during the Hitler regime. It provide the first hand of rescuers and survivors testimony of how they maintain to escaped during the holocaust and what drive them to take their responsibility to comes to of needs Jews. The…

The setting of the text In My Hands: A Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong changes constantly and many years pass. Overall, she was in the countries: Poland, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Germany. This book was spread out for most of Irene’s life before and during the war. To begin, as a child Irene lived in many different cities in Poland. The first town Irene lived in was a little town called Kozienice. Irene obtained fame in the village when she almost fell into…