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COURAGE Stories of courage and inspiration we can all learn from

Jan Karel Wijnbergen of Amsterdam was just 14 years old when she was approached and asked to join the resistance, helping to find shelter for Jewish children during the Holocaust. Enoch Rwanburindi of Rwanda sheltered Tutsis fleeing from the genocide in that country, hiding them and even

eventually building them their ownhome.Mina Jahi of Bosnia hid a man who had escaped his execution in Bosnia, saying only, “I knew that the same fate could happen tomy children, tomy sons,

and it was totally normal to help a man in trouble. I didn’t separate him from my own children.” Their’s are the stories of the new world- premiere exhibit “The Rescuers: Picturing MoralCourage,”on view throughAug. 31, 2014 at Holocaust MuseumHouston’s MorganFamilyCenter, 5401Caroline St. in Houston’s Museum District. They are the stories of 30 ordinary people who acted to do extraordinary things to save others, often putting their own lives at risk to do so. More than 30 images, accompanied by text from interviews, tell the stories of farmers, taxi drivers, nuns, mothers and fathers who risked everything to save neighbors, friends and strangers during the Holocaust and the genocides of Rwanda, Bosnia andCambodia.

Courtesy, PROOF: Media for Social Justice, Curatedby LeoraKahn, Photography byRiccardoGangale

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