Righteous Gentiles: Biographies by JETS https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra JCC R&R Lesson 7 en-us 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC 2018-11-18 22:07:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Sir Nicholas Winton, England asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280539 "We could have saved many more."]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280539 Miep Gies, Holland asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280541 "People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you."


--Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family.

]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280541 Chiune Sugihara, Japan asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280542 I cannot allow these people to die, people who have come to me for help with death staring them in the eyes. Whatever punishment may be imposed upon me (for disobeying government instructions), I know I should follow my conscience.”]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280542 Dr. Tina Strobos, Holland asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280543 "Rescuing and being a decent person is something you learn at home." Tina was tortured by the Nazis to reveal the whereabouts of the Jews she hid. She never revealed. ]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280543 The Talmud, Babylonia asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280544 “A person who saves one life saves an entire world” - Talmud]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280544 Piotr and Hannah Kmiec, Poland asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280545 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280545 Raoul Wallenberg, son of Sweden, diplomatic post to Budapest, Hungary. asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280546 "One person can make a difference." ]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280546 Irena Sendler, Warsaw, Poland asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280547 " “Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.” 

Irena Sendler was a social worker who witnessed half a million Jews suffering in the Warsaw ghetto, and developed a plan to smuggle children out of the ghetto. ]]> 2018-09-03 10:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280547 INSTRUCTIONS asynch https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280725 Watch 2-3 videos of Heroes. Add a post, sharing: I think...I feel...I wonder....

Don't forget to add your names to your posts!]]> 2018-09-03 10:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/277280725 Miep Gies https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305609574 That is so sad, but meaningful. I wonder how she even survived. But still, after all of that, she doesn't define herself as a hero. Just an ordinary person who helped. In itself, that's amazing. 
-Evie]]> 2018-11-18 03:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305609574 Piotr and Hannah Kmiec https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305610025 It amazing how Piotr risked his life to host that family.
-Evie]]> 2018-11-18 03:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305610025 Irena Sendler https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305610314 Wow. She risked her life for so many people.. that's what a hero is. 
-Evie]]> 2018-11-18 03:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305610314 miep https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720283 she risked her life to try to save the franks. She was sentenced to death but escaped.
-zach]]> 2018-11-18 21:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720283 irena sendler https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720797 i think that it is very admirable and interesting that she was so angry about the ghetto conditions and decided to use her power as a non-Jew to do something about it. normally someone might have just ignored the issue and decided it was too big for them to conquer, but she couldn't let it happen. -nora

]]> 2018-11-18 21:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720797 Raoul Wallenberg. https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720827 I think he was quite ingenious, using his position to make an almost foolproof defense of jews. I found the documents he made to be a very interesting way of helping to save the jews.
-zach]]> 2018-11-18 21:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720827 Piotr and Hannah https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720847 I think that this is important because of the trauma he went through.
-Ollie]]> 2018-11-18 21:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305720847 Tina Strobos https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721047 Even though she was tortured, she still didn't betray the Jews that she hid. That was very brave of her. She knew it was the right thing to do.
-Evie]]> 2018-11-18 22:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721047 Miep Gies,Holland https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721186 It is interesting that she does not call herself a hero, and just a normal person for hiding Ann Frank 
-Simon]]> 2018-11-18 22:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721186 Chiune Sugihara https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721220 i think that his mindset of "it is my responsibility to help these people and not saving them is just as bad as killing the," is a very important thing to keep in mind in today's world especially. -nora]]> 2018-11-18 22:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721220 nicholas winton https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721245 I don't know what he did, but I think he saved many people and I think that was brave and honorable of him.
-zach]]> 2018-11-18 22:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721245 Irena Sandler https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721292 I think this was important because they tried to help each other.
-Ollie]]> 2018-11-18 22:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/asynch/6d7q9yvpjrra/wish/305721292