Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and found that a mind with a why can survive almost any how. What that means for leaders.

Etty Hillesum's diary began as a young woman's private practice and became a record the Nazi system couldn't control. Witness begins on the page.

In 1944 Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg turned paperwork into a shield and stood behind it in person. The paper created the pause.

Władysław Szpilman lived because a chain of people kept making the next room, meal, and day possible. Rescue runs on handoffs.

A Portuguese consul defied his government and signed visas for twelve days straight. Authority means something when you spend it on the vulnerable.

A Japanese consul wrote visas by hand, day after day, while the window closed. Chiune Sugihara chose conscience over career.

Irena Sendler beat a regime of forms and lists with her own system: extract, re-identify, place, record. Moral courage under bureaucratic terror.

Margaret Bourke-White walked into Buchenwald with only a camera and refused to look away. What she showed still echoes.

She was thirteen when she reached Auschwitz. John retells Livia Bitton-Jackson's survival on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation.

From Hitler's 1939 Reichstag threat to the liberation of Auschwitz, John finds lessons in the Januaries of World War II.

John's Special Forces definition of integrity, doing right when no one's looking, meets Raoul Wallenberg's courage in wartime Budapest.

A hard-drinking opportunist and Nazi Party member risked everything to save more than 1,000 Jews. John on the imperfect man behind Schindler's List.

Before he was the world's most famous mime, Marcel Mangel hid his Jewish roots and smuggled children across the Alps to safety.