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“You can’t let people be treated in an inhuman way around you.... Otherwise you start to become inhuman.”

So declares rescuer Hetty Voûte in The Heart Has Reasons, an acclaimed historical account that offers an in-depth look into the hearts and minds of the Holocaust rescuers and explores the meaning that their lives and deeds have for us today.

Individually or in small “humanitarian cells,” the ten Dutch people profiled in The Heart Has Reasons saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

How did they do what they did—and why did they risk everything to do it?

Although the details of their extraordinary rescue activities vary greatly, the rescuers’ integrity does not. Thus these narratives provide a glimpse into their personalities and character while shedding light on their extraordinary acts of courage and