ADL honors four people to give them “The Courage To Care Award”. The courage to care award is a special award give to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era. The Holocaust is the time of 1941-1945 where Jews in Europe were persecuted, discriminated, and sent to concentration camps where they were forced to worked in horrible conditions. he Jews weren’t the only people being killed homosexuals, gypsies, disable people ,etc were all targeted. The Germans and Adolf Hitler were the caused of the Holocaust .The holocaust is the most deadliest genocide. Genocide is the mass killing of a whole race or other groups of people. In total12 million were killed and 6 million were Jews. ADL is the anti-defamation league and it is a Jewish non-government organization based in
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They were diplomats doing their own job. They probably made money by giving out passports and visas. Also it takes more strength and bravery to be raped, beaten, and forced into slave labor and still be able to save Jews, than to just sign visas. By giving a Jew a visa its only allowing them to travel, are they truly saving them or just doing their jobs? Its not special the way they saved the Jews. Also they faced only mild consequences unlike Irene. People might argue that they saved more Jews but I don’t still believe it took much effort to do so. Even though the others saved more people, I still believe quality over quantity because it doesn’t matter how much people they saved but the amount of effort applied to do it. So finally we can se who deserves the award. Irene of course she showed absolute courage and determination by helping others. She didn’t need to save the Jews and could have easily taken advantage of being the German officers mistress. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire that something good will happen, for many Jews Irene was that hope and light in the darkest
They were diplomats doing their own job. They probably made money by giving out passports and visas. Also it takes more strength and bravery to be raped, beaten, and forced into slave labor and still be able to save Jews, than to just sign visas. By giving a Jew a visa its only allowing them to travel, are they truly saving them or just doing their jobs? Its not special the way they saved the Jews. Also they faced only mild consequences unlike Irene. People might argue that they saved more Jews but I don’t still believe it took much effort to do so. Even though the others saved more people, I still believe quality over quantity because it doesn’t matter how much people they saved but the amount of effort applied to do it. So finally we can se who deserves the award. Irene of course she showed absolute courage and determination by helping others. She didn’t need to save the Jews and could have easily taken advantage of being the German officers mistress. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire that something good will happen, for many Jews Irene was that hope and light in the darkest