To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to ris… - Jack Mayer

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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.

Jack Mayer

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