SMALL ACTS OF TRIVIA

    New from the University of Nebraska Press is Good Neighbors Bad Times. Echoes of my Father’s
  German Villiage by Mimi Schwartz. A twelve year journey was started with the tale of a Torah being rescued by Christians in Krestallnacht during the Holocaust. This and other stories of the small German Village before, during, and after the Nazi reign are taken from first person perspectives and used to prove how humanity will soar even in times of hate. In today’s Tuesday Trivia we will test your knowledge of more small acts of kindness and their perpetrators during the Holocaust. Schindler’s List ringing a belL….

Match each Good Samaritan with their act.
1.    Hetty Voute
2.    Andre Trocme
3.    Oskar Schindler
4.    Kindercomite
5.    Denmark
6.    Meip Gies
7.    Nicholas Winton

A.    This  French Protestant pastor encourage his congregation to hide Jewish Refugees
B.    A German Industrialist , this man saved 1200 Jews from Nazi Camps by having them work in his factories. He then used the proceeds to their benefit, partially paying Nazi’s to turn a blind eye.
C.    With massive efforts on the part of the people to save their own, only 500 Jews were sent to Nazi Camps and of them only 10% died.  Making this country possess one of the highest survival rates of Jews in any European country during the Holocaust.
D.    This Dutch Woman helped transport Jewish children to safe homes. Once captured she helped British Paratroopers escape from prison, and upon being placed in a Nazi camp would secretly ruin gas masks from the assembly line she worked on.
E.    This woman helped Anne Frank and her family for over 2 years by hiding them in a hidden room in her families small business.  She is credited for saving Anne’s Diary which is now the second most widely read book in the world.
F.    This British stock broker was on vacation in Prague when he secretly organized the rescue of 669 Czech Jewish children from fates in Nazi camps. He didn’t come forward for fifty years, leaving some of the children to never know who saved their lives.
G.    This resistance group from Utrecht helped Jews remain in hiding after the September 1942 deportations began.

Ok bloggers,  answers will be up tomorrow, Auf Wiedersehen!