Altruistic Personality: Rescuers Of Jews In Nazi Europe

An enligtening and powerful exploration of those who risked their lives to help others during the Holocaust-and those who did not-and what we must do to ensure that such a tragedy never occurs again.

Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others-even total strangers-while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than seven hundred European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides so...