I chose to do my history project of Rights and Responsibilities on the non-Jews of the Holocaust who sought to help out these persecuted people. I have always been intrigued and rather haunted by the Holocaust and how humans could inflict such mass destruction on other humans. So instead of taking the negative aspects of the Holocaust, that are really depressing, I chose to look at the people who were heroes, people who had given the Jews hope during the time of such hardship. These people were inspiring to me, and I wanted to learn more about what struggles were faced on both ends; the Jews and the “heroes.” I think I also just knew that this was what I wanted to do when I read The Book Thief over winter break. When the father decides hides the son of his war buddy, risking everything, it seemed like such a wonderful thing. It was because of these courageous acts that many Jews survived the Holocaust, and since I had really heard of only just the horrible aspects of the Holocaust, that it was time I looked at the people who showed true humanism, true morals.