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11 Read the following verses from the Bible . How do you think they are related to the story about the Emergency Committee ? 12 Look at the map on page 79 and find at least four countries where Jews were in need of help . Now look at the map on page 138 and find the countries where the assistance described in this chapter originated . a . Locate the four countries where Jews needed help . b . Draw arrows to show the origin and the destination of the help . Miep , Holland : You were right , Hadas , that really is an amazing story ! Six members of one organization managed to move the American public to help rescue the Jews and also managed to pressurize the President of the United States to establish a committee that he actually opposed . Hadas , Israel : And it’s really not easy to get people to act ! I want to tell you something else too . In 1944 , some details were already known about the mass murder taking place in Auschwitz . Many people ( and not just these six men ) tried to get the United States to bomb the railroad tracks used by the trains transporting the Jews . A telegram about this signed by Golda Meir was recently found . ( You’ve heard of Golda Meir , right ?) Unfortunately , they weren’t successful ... Like I said , it’s very hard to influence others , but the story of these six men shows that it can be done !
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