by Ellen Cassedy, author of We Are Here

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, teachers and students in Lithuania will launch a project called “The Rescue of Another is the Highest Human Virtue.”

Across the country, high school students and community elders will work together to seek out untold stories of rescue. The goal is to “encourage the younger generation to understand that everyone is responsible for his or her actions, that good deeds and noble actions reveal a person’s moral and spiritual value,” organizers say.

The vast majority of Lithuania’s Jews perished during the Holocaust. Some Jews were saved by neighbors who smuggled them out of ghettos, pulled them out of death marches, concealed them in barns and cubbyholes, and secretly passed them from home to home.

The project gives today’s Lithuanians an opportunity to become a new generation of rescuers – rescuers of memory, rescuers of moral conscience.

Read more in my article in the Huffington Post.

Read it in Lithuanian in Bernardinai.lt.

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From Ellen Cassedy’s webpage here.