What is the fifth paragraph of the section titled, "Who Helped?" mainly about?Who Helped? Most people were not willing to help the Holocaust victims, either because they agreed with the Nazis or because they were afraid of the consequences. Still, there were rare individuals who had the courage to stand up to Hitler's regime. Here are some examples of those people.

Witold Pilecki of Poland was one of these people. Pilecki learned about Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. He volunteered to be imprisoned there so that he could fight the Nazis from the inside. Once inside the camp, Pilecki founded a secret organization called the ZOW. Prisoners worked together to make contact with the outside world. They got news, food, and clothing from the outside and trained members to fight in case there was a takeover. ZOW also sent information about German activities to the allies, who were fighting against Germany in the war. In 1943, Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz with secret German documents in tow. He eventually was arrested and spent the rest of the war in a German prison.

Chiune Sugihara of Japan also helped thousands of people flee to safety. During World War II, Sugihara was serving as a diplomat in Lithuania in Eastern Europe. He helped thousands of Jews escape the Nazis by writing visas for them so they could leave the country. Often, he wrote the visas against the orders of his superiors.

Oskar Schindler was another anti-Nazi hero, but he did not start out that way. In 1939, Schindler—a businessman and a member of the Nazi Party—bought a factory for very little money, and he hired cheap Jewish laborers. By exploiting a cheap source of labor, Schindler made a fortune.

During the next few years, Schindler saw how Jews were being treated in ghettos and concentration camps, and he decided to protect his Jewish workers. To do this, he told German officials that they could not take his workers to camps because he needed the cheap labor for his factories, one of which made weapons for the Nazi army. Schindler also used his own money to bribe German officials to leave his workers alone. Schindler purposely produced faulty weapons in his factories, hoping to weaken the Germans. His efforts left him penniless, but more importantly, he helped thousands of Jews.