Eva Fogelman

The Rescuer Self

Rescue of Jews under the Nazis was, in psychological parlance, a "rare behavior." From a population of 700 million in Germany and the allied occupied countries, the thousands who risked their lives to save Jews and others from Nazi persecution constituted an aberration from the norm. The majority remained passive bystanders; many actively collaborated in the Final Solution. The diversity among the rescuers1 of Jews during the Holocaust would dissuade any social scientist from generalizations... Read more