Comments on: Would They Hide You?

By: health articles

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By: Keeping in Touch | Two Frog Home

Keeping in Touch | Two Frog Home — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:46:46 +0000

[...] the measure of a true friend, one whom would hide you from the Nazis? I admit that’s a huge bar to hold someone up to, but its an interesting discussion [...]

By: risa b

risa b — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:40:41 +0000

No, there reall can be such a thing as deep, rewarding friendships.

My mom’s losing her best friend — almost 80 continuous years of “joined at the hip” — to diabetes. I asked her once about that kind of friendship, and she said, “honey, your real friends not only know where the bodies are buried — they brought a shovel and a sack lunch.”

By: CLOUD SHADOW

CLOUD SHADOW — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:37:39 +0000

Who needs enemies when you have friends and family. That has been one of the truths in my life.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:58:43 +0000

Although never having been in such an extreme situation as the genocidal one cited, I have been in some intensely difficult ones. This much I can tell you on relationships and the people who will do whatever they can when the chips are down – it’s rarely ever the people you expect that come through in times of crisis. In fact, it’s often people you would never have imagined or don’t even know well.

By: EM

EM — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:35:18 +0000

Rather than the hypothetical question think about what you are doing here and now. What human rights groups do you support actively, not just in your mind?

Support them now. It may be too late when you need support.

By: MEA

MEA — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:18 +0000

Nadia — I’ve often thought of the tremendous burden carried by those who hid people, and have decided that the greater courage was that of those who were hidden — they were willing to risk themselves and their friends in order to spare those providing shealter the guilt of not being able to help.

Pangolin — the problems facing a homeless person are rarely solved by something as simple at their being given a spare room in someone else house. I don’t see the connection between hiding a person in danger of genocide and providing a bed for someone whose problems might be as simple as needing a job (and transport, clothing, dental care…) and needed specialized care or treatment for substance abuse. I am not suggesting that all homeless people are druggies or mentally ill, but you have to be open to that possibility.

If you are housing a homelss person, more power to you.

MEA

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:28:48 +0000

Have you ever seen Pierre Savage’s film “Weapons of the Spirit”? As a child he was hidden and protected by French farmers whose background I share(descended from the Huguenots). In the film Mr. Savage asked them why they hid Jewish children from the Nazis and their reply was that it was the right thing to do. Whatever one’s religious tradition, the best seems to be summed up in having a moral compass that compels us to do the right thing even if it puts our own lives at risk. I don’t know how many of us could do what these tough French peasants did during the Nazi occupation of France.

By: Pangolin

Pangolin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:02:05 +0000

For far too many people in the US the answer is no. There are several hundred homeless people in my town and I’m pretty sure that If I tried I could find there is an empty house or apartment for each and every one of them. These are unsold houses or vacant rentals but there they are, empty housing units, where people sleep in the streets. This isn’t even getting to garages, sheds or storage units that could be used for shelter.

Don’t think because some neighbors helped family X that had a cancer case of family Y that had a broken hip that they would help YOU with your problem. Every person standing around with a “will work for food” sign had a mother and father; most had siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, coworkers and church affiliations.

Yet there they are. Don’t believe for a minute that the profound social illness that is modern society is not willing to toss you in the discard pile also if you don’t meet expectations.

Go down to your local shelter and talk to the people and you will realize that until whatever disaster befell them they were people as normal as anyone else. Nobody’s hiding them.

By: Bettina

Bettina — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:29:46 +0000

As you wrote a lot about relocating or thinking about taking people in your home when hard times come lately,
I played the “nazi” game – not in the way “who would hide me” but like “whom would I invite to live with us?”
I’m glad to answer that I would not mind to take about 8 of our nearest friends plus all our extended familiy in our home for a long time. (o.k they would have to sleep and sit on top of another

I’m not good at asking for help and so I’m often emberrassed when a friend says: Why didn’t you tell me? I’d have come and fix it for you (including a 1 hour drive to us). Or you talk about a problem with the grey water sewer under the house, and next day brother in law shows up with a special machinery (that he had to ask for at the place where he works) and cleans everything out.

I try to give back as much as I can – sew jeans shorter for a friend, knit baby things (I’m good at it, so the gifts are much appreciated , give away surplus from the garden or just helping people on the street that seem to have a problem (usually things like getting the right train or bus) or helping out in other ways.

With neighbours it’s more difficult here *sigh*

Bettina