Examples Of Integrity In The Holocaust

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong morals. Being honest means to be sincere, and having strong morals means to be a good member of society. These qualities were used in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was where six million Jewish people were murdered . It was very hard to use integrity while in war because it was very risky for everyone. If non-Jewish people were caught helping Jews, they could’ve been sent off to work or death camps with the Jews. Despite the risk of death, many people were able to use integrity in the Holocaust and chose to be honest and sincere to help the Jews because it was simply the right thing to do. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl use integrity in The Diary of a Young Girl while the unsung hero Irena

Anne Frank states in The Diary of a Young Girl on page 15 about Miep ,”Once again ,shoes, stockings, books, and under clothes disappeared into Miep’s bag, and Henk’s deep pockets, and at eleven thirty they too disappeared.” This quote indicates that Miep was willing to sneak around ,and steal things to help the people in the Secret Annex. Miep was a good member of society, she risked her life to help people that’s not even her own family. Miep did her best to help the people of the Annex. She brought them all of the essentials to live comfortably considering the

She was born in 1910 to a Polish family living in the suburbs of Warsaw Poland. Her father was a physician who treated the poor and the Jews. After he died in 1917 the Jewish community offered to help Irena get through school and with any money problems she was facing. This deed made Irena very fond of the Jewish community. During the Nazi invasion of Poland, she was a social worker with Warsaw's Social Welfare Department. She had a special permit to enter the ghetto where she wore a yellow star to show she was Jewish. In secret, Irena directed a children’s rescue group to smuggle Jewish children from the Ghetto. This group was part of an organized ‘underground’ council called Zegota, set up to help Jews. When Irena rescued children, she provided them with false papers and fake names and placed them with temporary Polish families, who pretended that the children were relatives. When she could not find a family willing to take such a risk, she placed them in institutions like the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters , or in convents. Irena saved the names of the Jews she rescued in milk bottles so they would know their real identity after the war. She was caught by the gestapo in October 1943. She was tortured and beaten to disclose information about what she was doing. But, she managed to keep her mouth shut and was sentenced to death. Members of the Zegota bribed the Gestapo