Public talk - Pearl Oliner: Very Religoius and Irreligious Rescuers of Jews in nazi Euriope: What Was the Difference and What Difference Does it Matter?
Monday, April 28, 2008 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Pearl Oliner will speak on the mental characteristics of the altruists who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. In 1988, she and her husband, a Holocaust survivor, wrote the classic The Altruistic
Personality. She has also written several major works on rescuers in Holocaust Europe, including Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe.
