Judaism is the root
Christianity the branch of the olive tree
The olive tree is a symbol of peace.
It is by no accident that the olive tree was planted in Israel in honor of the Righteous, the Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Hitler holocaust.
The fact remains that much has been written about the incredible self-sacrificing acts of those who risked their lives for the Jews. It is a cross section of humans from all over the world of all different professions. The stories are unlimited about the reality of the best there is within human beings.
MarisI heard about the story of a teenaged-Polish farm girl named Marisia Szul. She saved the lives of a young Jewish mother and her young baby. In addition, a terrified young girl pleaded in the middle of the night to stay with Marisia after her parents were just murdered.
Marisia then went to the barn, dug a large hole in the ground where her new friends were and kept them alive for two years during the horror of the Nazi occupancy of Poland.
At one point the police came and took her to jail. They kept mercilessly questioning her and she just kept saying "I don't know nothing."
Marisia was in the jail and for days they were interrogating her, but all she would say is, “I don't know nothing." One night a Polish guard who was working for the Nazis came and said to her at midnight, "I'm going to open the gate. Run."
She ran for 70 miles to get to the site of the farm, but it was all burned down. She ran to hide in the forest where she met the mother and children she had saved.
That was near the end of the war – near end of occupancy. There she met her husband in one of the rescue camps and together they emigrated to Canada. The Jewish mother and child came to Skokie IL to be with their family. From there on, Marisia became a member of their family in which she celebrated events such as weddings and Bar Mitzahs.
It's amazing to think that because she saved a few people, she inadvertently saved a generation and those who will come in the future. She saved an unlimited number of people because she saved one life.
