Why the World Didn't Turn on the Jews — The People Who Helped Them in WW2

Kaunas, 1940: a Japanese diplomat writes visas by hand until his fingers ache — and keeps writing from the window of a moving train. Most of the world turned its back on the Jews. But not everyone. Chiune Sugihara, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Ho Feng-Shan, the people of Denmark, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Miep Gies, Irena Sendler, the Ulma family, Raoul Wallenberg, Oskar Schindler and more — told honestly, including the price they paid and the places where help failed. Where are you watching from? Tell me your family's story in the comments — and even if your view is not positive, write it anyway. Help us reach 50,000 subscribers: true stories of the Jewish people. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Introduction 3:16 Part 1. The world that said no 4:55 Part 2. The paper heroes 12:02 Part 3. The nation that said no 18:01 Part 4. The village 21:17 Part 5. The hiders 28:55 Part 6. Budapest 32:46 Part 7. The unlikely ones 35:50 Part 8. The answer SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Yad Vashem, The Righteous Among the Nations database and statistics USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia: Chiune Sugihara; Rescue in Denmark; Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Raoul Wallenberg; Bulgaria Samuel P. Oliner & Pearl M. Oliner, The Altruistic Personality (1988) Bo Lidegaard, Countrymen (2013); Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed (1979) Some quotations are paraphrased and marked as such on screen. Archive film: public domain. Animation: original. Photos: public domain / CC licences, credited on screen.