Oskar Schindler: Rescuers During The Holocaust

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The time of the Holocaust is an unwanted time to have been living in. The was a great amount of destruction and killing towards Jews. During this period there were many bystanders; people who would just watch all the wrong actions being done by the Nazis that were taking place. To be a rescuer you had to be a strong individual that was willing to risk their life for a Jew, Oskar Schindler was one of those people. Professor Staub who studied rescuers during the Holocaust writes, “Goodness, like evil, often begins in small steps. Heros evolve; they aren’t born. Very often rescuers make only a small commitment at the start - to hide someone for a day or two. But once they had taken that step, they began to see themselves differently, as someone
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