“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 rescuers in this book are strangers from many difference countries, for example, Denmark, France, Poland, Norway: many not only open doors to Jews, but did many ordinary things for Jews to be safe by providing food, feeding, and keeping secrets from …show more content…
In her book, she tries to investigate why rescuer were so motivated to go against authority to risked their lives to rescue Jews during the holocaust. Also, she attempt to bring about their stories, their personalities and heroic acts against the Nazi power. In her book, many rescuers doesn’t believe what they did was a heroic action for the saving of Jew’s …show more content…
Klee, Ernst, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess. "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. New York: Free, 1991. Print.
The Good Old Day book, it has a lot of disturbing diaries, letters, and reports of the terrible things that happen during the holocaust. The book got it topic from an album own by a commandant Kurt Franz of Treblinka concentration camp. It examine the mass murder of Jews, and account of how those murdering was carry on by the Nazi or anti-Jewish. Those who did the killing were actually normal people, but the only problem was they had power to decide who supposed to lived or died. "It 's almost impossible to imagine what nerves of steel it took to carry out that dirty work down there”
Author Ernst Klee was born 1942, studied theology and education, he taught handicapped children at Volkshochsche in Frankfurt, wrote several books about the