- 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? (Echoes and Reflections)
The difference is that help is when you make things easier for someone. To rescue is when you save someone from a dangerous place. In the Holocaust people rescued people from the camps when they needed a place to lay low. For example Elie Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage Also the Americans helped Jewish Holocaust survivors by making a museum for them. That way they could tell the stories on how they were treated in the camps and how they survived. The Jews needed shelter and a French man Si Kaddour Benghabrit helped over 1,000 helped them to get it. I’d characterize the helpers and rescuers as kind of up standers and really brave, because they didn't speak up about what was happening and they helped and rescued the Jews.
Good job in showing the differences between Help and Rescue. What if I said the sentence- I helped rescuing someone. Am I helping or rescuing?
ReplyDeleteI'd say your helping the person because it's easier if your there rather just them
ReplyDeleteRescue is a more extreme word for help. I think helping the Jews is more like the people hiding them so that they would not get caught and end up in a concentration camp. Hiding the Jews was helping them avoid death by not ending up in a death camp. Rescuing somebody is more like freeing the Jews from the camps, from death itself. If someone needed a nickle to buy lunch, it would be helping them if you gave them the nickle. But if they were starving from the lack of food and they really needed to eat, giving them the nickle would be rescuing them. So avoiding death was more like helping the Jews, and saving them from it was rescuing them.
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