'Save one life, save the world' is a line from the Talmud, the Jewish book of law. This applies to many of the upstanders who rescued Jews just before and during World War 2. Some of you may be inspired to research the rescuers mentioned in the trailer below. Again consider what traits do they posses that make them heroic?
Image shows Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat responsible for the rescue of thousands of Hungarian Jews. His fate remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of World war 2.He was 32 when he disappeared after being arrested in 1945 by Soviet occuying troops. Read more about him here at United States Holocaust Museum
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