First they came

for
the Jews and I
did
not speak out -
because I was
not a
Jew.

Then they came Lesson Objective:

for
the communists To illustrate how certain individuals
and I under the Nazi regime were able to
did not speak out aid Jewish resistance and save lives.
-
because I was During the Holocaust, many millions of people
not a were murdered because of who they were. In
communist. many cases nobody stood up and told the Nazis
that what they were doing was immoral and
Then they came wrong. Sadly, few Jews were rescued from their
for terrible fate.
the trade
unionists There were, however, a relatively small number
of non-Jewish people who recognized what was
and I did not happening to European Jews and were prepared
speak to risk their lives in order to try and save others,
out - because I or oppose the Nazi regime.

Raoul Wallenburg – A Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of

Jews in
Hungary by issuing passes for them to leave the
country to
avoid the Nazis.
Varian Fry - An American who rescued thousands of Jews
from France
with his partisan team based in Marseilles.
Oskar Schindler - He took over 1000 Jewish prisoners from
Krakow to his
factory, protecting them from almost certain
death.
Sempo Sugihara - He ruined his political career in Japan
when he was the
ambassador in Lithuania. As he witnessed the
Nazi
treatment of the Jews he issued thousands of
visas
allowing Jews to escape to the Far East. His
country was
not happy.

“ I looked at all those people clinging to

the iron fences
of the consulate begging for visas, and I
thought I just
had to do something for them. In pure joy
they would
 fall to their knees in thanks. I was so
inspired by the
sight that I worked non- stop for a month
writing visas’.

Sophie Scholl - Sophie and her brother, Hans, began a German

resistance
movement in 1942 called the White Rose. They
gave out
anti-Nazi leaflets but were caught and executed.
DVD – Watch the clip of Oskar Schindler leaving his factory at
the end of the war.