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More than 275 delegates from 40 countries and six continents gathered in Miedzyzdroje, Poland during spring break for the first ever Harvard World Model United Nations...
...Poland was chosen to host the convention so that Eastern European delegates could attend, organizers said. Russian delegates also attended after the organization helped pay the group's travel expenses and fees...
...Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine. There in 1943 he took command of the Jewish underground terrorist organization Irgun...
...look at the rescuers as a large group, you cannot put them into any of the categories that you are used to," says Nechama Tec, professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut and author of When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. They include both rich and poor, educated and barely literate, believers and atheists. "But on closer examination you see a series of interrelated characteristics," she notes. She found, for example, that many of the rescuers were individualists. "Most of us do what society demands at the moment. But because the rescuers...
...them never planned to be rescuers. They found themselves responding to a need first and the danger second. Many shared a sense of universalism. "They saw the Jews not as Jews but as persecuted human beings," the sociologist says. In her research, Tec, who was herself sheltered in Poland, found that only 10% of the rescuers had confined their help to friends they had known before...