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The Holocaust And The Holocaust

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The Holocaust has a history of disgrace and torture, a period of time where people had forgotten the meaning of humanity, but among those who had fallen into darkness and only sought for evilness there were some who refused to let themselves be engulfed into it and did all they could to save as many people as possible. Those were people who risked their lives in an act of courage to help and free the people affected by the Holocaust. During the horror that the Holocaust was just a few dared to go against it, but people like Irena Sendlerowa proved that she didn’t lose her humanity. According to the article “I'm no hero,” she saved more than 2,500 children from death camps, “She and her team smuggled the children out by variously hiding them in ambulances, taking them through the sewer pipes or other underground passageways, wheeling them out on a trolley in suitcases or boxes or taking them out through the old courtyard which led to the non-Jewish area”(Connolly). She would in any way possible, save as many children as she could, even if it was very dangerous and she could end up dead by the Nazi. Still that didn’t stop her from doing what she thought it was right. However, like a star that start to shine too bright, other people took notice of what she was doing and among them there were the Nazi who, according to the same article, arrested her and took her to a Gestapo headquarters where she was tortured and had both of her legs broken. Even from what she had to go

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