Risk Takers And Safe Keepers During The Holocaust

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Risk Takers and Safe Keepers
Many people risked their lives to assist men, women, and children hide during the Holocaust. If people did not help the Jews out, we would have fewer powerful, and moving stories. A few of the many people who risked their lives to help the Jews: Marion Pritchard, Antonina Gordey, and Ludviga Pukas. These risk takers and safe keepers played a major role in the big picture of the Holocaust. Jews and enemies of Hitler weren’t the only people punished by the Nazis; anyone who assisted them was to be killed. Assisting a Jew included providing: a place to sleep, food, and/or transportation. If you weren’t hiding a Jew, but you knew that someone was hiding one, you were also punished. The death penalty for aiding Jews
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The Jews were hidden underneath the floorboards, so they were not found. The Nazis discovered that if they came back a short while after they checked the first time, the Jews would be out of hiding. So, a half an hour after they Nazis and Dutch collaborator left, the Dutch collaborator returned. Of course, the Jews weren’t hidden, so Marion Pritchard panicked. ”...Ms. Pritchard took out a revolver hidden on a bookshelf in the room and shot the intruder”. (Sandomir 3) A local friend helped bury the body in a coffin with another …show more content…
Sandomir, Richard. “Marion Pritchard, Who Risked Her Life to Rescue Jews From Nazis, Dies at
96.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Dec. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/europe/marion-pritchard-rescuer-of-jews.html.
“‘Women of Valor.’” Antonina Gordey - Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the
Holocaust - Righteous Among the Nations - Yad Vashem, 2018, www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/gordey.asp.
“‘Women of Valor.’” Ludviga Pukas - Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
- Righteous Among the Nations - Yad Vashem, 2018,

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