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These families loved their country and came back to their home after the war—even though their homes were gone. Families, like the Żabińskas, fought for the place that they loved the most. A passage from the book that stood out was "Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of evolution." This passage showed the horrors of the war, which most people do not think of. Another passage is “However, Germans, Poles, and Jews stood in three separate lines to receive bread, and rationing was calculated down to the last calorie per day, with Germans receiving 2,613 calories, Poles 669 calories, and Jews only 184 calories.” It shows the amount of injustice that all Jews faced during World War II. The Żabińskas fought for the Jewish people, despite the consequences. As a Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, once said, “For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do