"How can I not hesitate before accepting? Are we sufficiently aware, against the background of the darkest chapter in German history, of how guilty we are for rescuing no more than a tiny droplet out of the endless sea of despair of that period? Righteous can therefore have no other meaning than the attempt, the obligation, to do what is right and to live humanly even during times of inhumanity."
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Eva Hermann
Eva Hermann (Nee LĂŒddecke; May 24, 1900 â July 31, 1997) was a German teacher, writer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. She and her husband were arrested and imprisoned for harboring a Jewish family by the Nazi police. For their work rescuing Jews, they were awarded by Yad Vashem the Righteous Among the Nations.
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