Los Angeles – Holocaust-Film-Based Poll Shows 1 In 3 Americans Would Refuse To Hide A Jew If Alive During Holocaust

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    FILE - Protestors, gathered outside the US embassy in Athens, light candles shaping the word USA with the nazi symbol. 20 March 2003. EPALos Angeles, CA – A scientific poll born out of a Holocaust-based film reveals that 1 in 3 American adults say they would have said “no” if asked to hide a Jew were they around during the Holocaust.

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    HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com (http://bit.ly/1iCZ1TO) reports that the poll was conducted as part of a marketing campaign aimed at promoting the digital release of the film “Return to the Hiding Place,” which chronicles the the lives of Christians who put their lives on the line to shelter Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

    The film’s director Peter Spencer hatched the idea for the poll based on an interview in which the film’s star, John Rhys-Davies, asked his interviewers if they would have risked their safety to help Jews had they been in position to at the time.

    The poll—which surveyed 1,000 American adults—showed that married American adults were more likely to say they would have helped Jews, while men, more than women, answered in the affirmative.

    Additionally, people who identified as religious were more likely to answer “yes,” and affirmative Southerners outnumbered Northerners.


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    Nycnyc
    Nycnyc
    8 years ago

    What’s news about that. The more atheistic America becomes the more they believe in evolution that humans and animals are the same. Why would you risk your life for monkey and after all the monkeys were out ancestors. So humans and monkeys are the same to these college professors.

    misslydia128
    misslydia128
    8 years ago

    It’s a big improvement from Europe 75 years ago, where only about 1 in 1000 people were willing to save a Jew. And the question was if you were willing to risk your life. I think there results are reason fo optimism.

    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    8 years ago

    But let’s take in arab refugees !!!! There won’t be a peep made when that happens !!!! Actually Hashem warned that this would happen if the Jews sin .

    hashomer
    hashomer
    8 years ago

    Evolution? How’d you figure that one out? The comment is as stupid as the poll the article is about.

    sheepheadsbayyid
    sheepheadsbayyid
    8 years ago

    2 out of 3 is pretty good. Think for a second if we would get 2 out of 3 yiddin to risk their lives to save runaway slaves or black from the KKK

    JackC
    JackC
    8 years ago

    It is easy to talk the talk.
    It is SO much harder to walk the walk.

    Hard to believe that two out of three would get involved when almost no one gets involved in saving others which involve the most minimal threat to us every day.

    masked_commuter
    masked_commuter
    8 years ago

    The headline does not at reflect the results – 2 out of 3 would. My wife and daughter are Jewish as are most of my friends from childhood. Trus though the more realisrtic question now is helping Syrian refugees.