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Autor: Yahali M. Beinart

“Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter!“ (Abba Kovner)

In times of distress, and especially a great tragedy such as the Holocaust and World War II, man is revealed in all his ugliness, cruelty and indignity. But it is precisely in these situations, against such terrible events, that other people exhibit superior qualities, which in daily life were not required to be so radically demonstrated.