Sunday, November 20, 2011

Duty

What I did was merely my duty.  Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do.
Source: Andree Geulen-Herscovici
Taken From:  Restoring the Republic with Truth and Fearlessness, Karen Kwiatkowski, June 6th 2001


About the Source, taken from the above article:Andree Geulen-Herscovici, an 86-year-old Belgian schoolteacher was recognized by Israel for saving 300 children from the Nazis. In 1942, she witnessed a Gestapo raid on the school. She then joined an underground rescue organization, and for more than two years, she quietly worked with other likeminded people to save these Jewish children from an evil state that would have seen their lives destroyed.
During the ceremony, she said the above.

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