"We all have to ask ourselves, "What would I have done?". I agree with Wladyslaw Bartofszewski, one of the organizers of ZEGOTA, who said, "Only the … - Jack Mayer

You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.

To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family that hid him required only one informer or, worse still, one blackmailer. The risk of being caught by the SS was not prison, but death- death for the entire family.

I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning you don't ask if they can swim, you just jump in and help.