Heroes From The Holocaust Essay

Heroes from the Holocaust

A hero is a person who risks their lives to do something to save or help a person, multiple people, or animals from any type of harm. Jerzy Bielecki, Irena Sendler, and Albert Goering were all Holocaust heroes. They saved Jews lives in multiple ways. They risked their lives helping these people, but if they were caught, they would suffer the exact same fate as the jews they were helping. They were not forced to help these people, it was a choice, they would rather help these innocent people than stand by and do nothing as people were getting dragged from the homes and families and getting tortured and killed.

In 1944, Jerzy Bielecki rescues his sweetheart, Cyla Cybulska, from Auschwitz. Bielecki disguised himself as an SS officer. He demanded the guard german to free Cyla and the were headed out the gate, Both risking their lives. Cyla and Bielecki both made it out of the death camp alive. They planned to get married as soon as the war was over. Bielecki’s mother did not approve of their marriage because Cyla was a jew and Bielecki was not. Jerzy and Cyla never married, but Bielecki was a hero for at least saving, one life.

In the 1940’s, Irena was only 29 years old. She was a social worker. Her job was to take care of people who were poor and homeless in the city. When jews were taken from their homes and put into the ghetto, Irena made the choice to rescue Adults and children. She established contact with activists of the jewish welfare organization. She rescued 2,500 jewish children by smuggling them in her briefcase or telling the guards they were going to go pray. She used underground tunnels to rescue some adults and more children. Irena Sendler was arrested October 1943. She was sentenced to death and sent to Pawiak prison. Luckily activists bribed the guards to release her. Irena continued her underground activities. Irena Sendler will always be