Held on September 28, 2017
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, lecturer at Yeshiva University and Queens College and former Director of the Department for the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, discusses the efforts by the state of Israel and Yad Vashem to commemorate and recognize those heroes of the Holocaust. He focuses on key questions, including what are the circumstances for rescue, and what differentiates these active bystanders from the majority of passive bystanders who remain complicit with their silence and inaction?
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, lecturer at Yeshiva University and Queens College, is the former Director of the Department for the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Paldiel has written a seminal work on rescue efforts, aptly titled, The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Other publications include: Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching, Good Samaritans and Reconciliation; Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust; and Saving the Jews: Men and Women who Defied the Final Solution.
For more information about the Righteous Among Nations at Yad Vashem, click here: https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous.html
The Righteous : The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by 
The path of the Righteous : Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust by 
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