What is An Upstander Anyway?

Imagine for a moment that you watch your best friend, who is of a different nationality than yourself, getting beat up by another teenager, who is of the same nationality as yourself and you just stand there and do nothing about it. This is what we call a BY-STANDER, one whom does nothing when something in our society is wrong. What you should have done, is take the stand and put an end your best friends bullying and beatings. This is what we call un UPSTANDER, someone who stands up for what is right, even though the circumstances may not always be right. During the Holocaust (or Shoah), Upstanders were very rare and it took people like Miep Gies (the woman who hid Anne Frank) and the Village of Le-Chambon-sur-Lingon (Where people like Renee Kann Silver, Edith Kann Roth Erna Heymann Bernstein and Peter Feigl were hid) to stand up to the Nazis and defy their atrocious regulations. More and more people than began to shelter Jews and hide Jewish Children. People overseas in places like the UK and France were more than willing to take the Jewish refugees from Germany, Czechosolvakia, or any other war-torn country. There is always a time when you can be an Upstander. It begins with you. When you see something that is wrong or that does not seem right, stand up and take a stand.