Article: A Helping Hand: Humans capable of amazing acts of altruism.

Byline: Karen Owen

Feb. 11--It was a dangerous time. Nazi collaborators were all around, but the Polish peasant woman still hid a 12-year-old Jewish orphan who had escaped from the ghetto. She changed his name, taught him the Catholic catechism and helped him invent a new identity and life.

When a collaborator started sniffing around, Samuel Oliner was able to find work on a dairy farm with a kindly, childless couple. If they thought there was anything fishy about the boy's story, they kept it to themselves. Oliner has spent 25 years studying such "rescuers" and other heroes in Europe and the United States. He has interviewed 1,000 people. ...

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