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Tragedy of the Twentieth Century

The late 1930's, the Second World War, and the immediate postwar period are tragic examples of human nature's destructive capacity.

Heroism and dedication existed side by side with baseness and disdain for human life. Between these two extremes were lapses and fears, insensitivity, various gestures of sympathy, and quiet, everyday assistance.

The biographies presented here are rooted the Holocaust period and the resistance, and also in the later phase of Stalinist-era persecutions.

Jozef Szajna has been included in this section, because his work represented a constant quest to determine the value of human life when one's fate was in other people's hands.
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