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Five Types of Motivation for Rescue:
1) Moral rescuers

• Had a sense of right and wrong (empathy)
• If they were asked to help, they would never refuse
• Idealogical, religious, and emotional types of morality

2) Judeophiles

• Loved Jewish individuals or people (interactions/relationships)
• Guilty if didn't help (empathy)
• Sheltered those they knew (friends and loved ones)

3) Concerned professionals

• 5% of rescuers
• Diplomats, doctors, nurses, social workers
• Saw them as clients in need

4) Network rescuers

• Motivated by fear of Third Reich
• Focused more on stopping Hitler than rescuing Jews

5) Child rescuers

• Motivation to please their parents with their actions
• Guides, courriers, agents who would take families out of ghettos
• Felt proud and important 

Story: Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet liberators as a spy and thrown in jail; never heard from again.