- 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? Can you think of a specific time when help was needed rather than rescue, and of times when Jews needed to be rescued? Would you characterize those individuals who helped Jews as heroes? Why or why not? Would you characterize those who rescued Jews as heroes? Why or why not? (Echoes and Reflections)
Someone that helped someone else means that they just assisted them in something, but if someone rescues someone else it means that they saved them because they were with them the whole way. They saved the other person from something terrible, like death. During the Holocaust if you helped someone, you were maybe sneaking them an extra ration of bread and soup. If someone was rescued during the Holocaust, that means that they were snuck out of the camp with the help of someone that was higher ranking than them. It could mean that a Jewish police had a friend run away during a transport and pretend that they didn't see them run away. A time when help is needed rather than a rescue is when there is something little that cannot be done as one person. Rescue was given to the Jews when some people hid them from the Nazis (according to Rescuing Jews). Some of the ways that people rescued Jewish people was, hiding them in attics, haystacks, and sheds. Marion Pritchard rescued Jews by bringing them food and clothing. Also a way to rescue them from any legal documents saying that they were Jewish was to make new forged identity papers, which is what Raoul Wallenberg did (also from Rescuing Jews). There were many different ways to help and rescue the Jewish population, but that didn't mean that there was always the option to do that. The people that did feel that they could rescue some of the Jewish people are considered jeeps to me because heros save lives and that is what those people did, they saved some Jewish people's lives.
I agree with how you said helping someone is like assisting someone but rescuing is saving a life. Good job!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I thought that by saying that there could be a difference established between the two.
DeleteBentelm, I think that your opinions on the way you describe help and rescue are very in common with my opinions because when I think of an individual helping another person, I think of the individual giving the person anything that was needed at the certain point of time. When I think of an individual rescuing another person, I think of the individual getting the person out of any dangerous situations that could affect his/her life. An example, in my opinion, of an individual helping another person is when, in the movie, The Pianist, a Polish-Jew named Wladyslaw Szpilman is given food from a Nazi officer, since hunger was his problem at that certain time. An example, in my opinion, of a an individual rescuing another person is when, after World War 2, the Americans saved the Jews at many concentration camps by taking them away from the camp.
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