"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
05/19/2020 at 20:45 • Filed to: Profiles in courage
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
05/19/2020 at 20:45 • Filed to: Profiles in courage | 6
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I don’t visit the Google search home page, so I’m usually unaware of their doodles, but today’s filtered up through another page I visit and it definitely seemed worth sharing.
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This is an incredible story, of a man who faced not-inconsiderable peril and financial stress to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Hitler. I find it astonishing that his story was untold for 50 years because he didn’t feel it worth talking about, even to his wife.
I haven’t had the courage to watch this video. I cry too easily.
Svend
> Just Jeepin'
05/19/2020 at 21:19 |
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That’s the thing of great people back then. It’s not that the event was recorded and forgotten, but that the brave, courageous, etc... didn’t tell anyone, keeping it secret for fear of sounding boastful.
Doing the right thing because it was the right thing, not for reward or merit.
Every time something like this surfaces you have to admire those of yesteryear all the more.
DipodomysDeserti
> Just Jeepin'
05/19/2020 at 21:44 |
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I’ve sat through a few lectures at school from Holocaust survivors, they’re rough. I’m usually sitting in the back of the room in tears. The lecturer is usually the great parent of one of my students. I’ve now started to hear them from the children of survivors as the original survivors begin to pass away . Adds a whole new wrinkle to the story.
Had a talk from a student’s grandmother about her parents. They both lost their entire families and met after the war. Didn’t tell their kids about any of it until they were older and asking why they didn’t have any aunts, uncles or grandparents. I’m not Jewish, but over the years have seen the similarities between Jews and Italians in how important family is. The most devastating thing you can do to people like us is take our families away. The fact these people held on is amazing. If that happened to me I’d walk out into the desert and wait for the lions to eat me.