Thursday, April 18, 2024

He must have wondered why.

"Sam Oliner, also from Poland, arrived from a displaced persons camp in 1945 'totally uneducated and forlorn.' The staff observed his intuitive skill with animals, and they encouraged him to keep pets of his own. He learned 'not only reading and writing but also how to cooperate, how to be kind,' he said. Tante Anna in particular struck him as 'a farsighted and truly altruistic human being.'”

~ Deborah Cadbury

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-schoolteacher-who-spirited-her-students-away-from-the-nazis-180980393/

"The Altruistic Behavior Institute"
https://altruism.humboldt.edu/about-3

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