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We Were There
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 29, 1947:

By Albert Hutler

There are many good, kind, generous people in this world of ours which at times seems so selfish and so hard.  Sometimes it seems tht too many of us believe in the "survival of the fittest" theory.  And then along comes one little human being, who does little kind acts, and you begin to believe in people again.

So it was in Germany.  You found hundreds of people who had brutalized other people; who had been inhuman, who had murdered and killed for sadistic reasons. But you also found one or two who had risked their lives to that a Jew could live; who had hidden and fed Jewish children; who had believed in human beings.

So it was in France, in Belgium and in Holland. And so it is in San Diego. One of the grand moments in a campaign of few grand moments is when you open your mail and find a letter from a Christian Friend, "My heart's deepest sympathy is with your suffering people overseas and I am giving already in three directions for their relief out of my very slender resources. But I would like to give my trifle to your fund and may God grant his blessing on your work of assistance."

It makes up for all the pettiness, for all the evasions, for all your lost hopes about people. It sometimes even makes you feel as if you had been reborn.