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Remedying Neglect
Book chapter

Remedying Neglect

Arthur B. Shostak
Stealth Altruism, pp 225-236
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114460-25

Abstract

Survivor Memoirs Forbidden Care Tikkun Olam Museum Content Stealth Altruism Yad Vashem Directorate Holocaust Museum Nazi Camps Commemoration Upgrade Sobibor Death Camp Rena Gelissen Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Avner Shalev SS Guard Righteous Gentiles Moral Examples Yad Vashem Effective Altruism Yom HaShoah Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp Yad Vashem Publication Modern Jewish Life Jewish Rescuers Constructive Accommodation Belief Memory
In 2000 a small group of survivors in Israel developed an Action Committee for the Recognition of Jewish Rescuers (JRJ). It has since vigorously lobbied the Knesset and Yad Vashem to recognize Jewish men and women who, during the Holocaust and at great peril, tried to help care for relatives, friends, and strangers. High-risk examples saluted youth movement members who dared to open communal kitchens in ghettos. Likewise, attention went to former neighbors who shared what little they had with one another in the Nazi camps. Israel announced in 2015 on Yom HaShoah that it was thoroughly revising its mandatory Holocaust curriculum. Gesher Calmenson was eleven years old in 1945 when he first learned about the Holocaust. Reflecting back sixty-five years later he recalls "no one provided a way for the author and his/her peers to come to terms with the unthinkable".

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