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\u00a0One Kind Gesture Leads a Woman to Risk Her Life to Shelter a Jewish Family<\/h2>\n\u00a0One Kind Gesture Leads a Woman to Risk Her Life to Shelter a Jewish Family<\/h2>\n![\"One](\"http:\/\/www.oddee.com\/_media\/imgs\/articles2\/a98659_rubinek.jpg\")
<\/center>In 1941, Zofia Banya, a poor Polish farm woman, found that she did not have enough money to purchase the supplies that her family needed at the village store. The shopkeeper, Israel Rubinek, told her to take the goods and repay him when she could. This act of kindness was virtually unheard of in war torn Poland, and Banya never forgot it.<\/p>\nTwo years later, the Nazis were rounding up Jewish people in Poland and sending them to concentration camps. Fearing for the life of the kind young man who had helped her, Banya risked her life by hiding Rubinek and his wife in her home for two and a half years. Several times, German soldiers came to the Banya’s farmhouse to search for hiding Jews, and each time the Rubinek family hid in a tiny crawl space. One particular night, Nazi soldiers slept in the Banya’s living room, just inches from where the Rubineks were concealed.<\/p>\n
Decades later, the Rubineks would reunite with the woman who sheltered them from the Nazis. Their granddaughter says, “That one act of impossible kindness in that impossible situation affected everything. The depth of the soul’s capacity is immeasurable and unfathomable. These poor Polish farmers were terrified for their lives, yet they take these two people in they barely knew.”\u00a0(Link<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Photo<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n After Sanders visited with his team, he was shocked when that man turned up a few days later and gave him an expensive gift, an X-Box console. As it turns out, this employee had purchased the X-Box by pawning a revolver that he had intended to use to kill himself. After hearing the small words of praise from his boss, the man decided to keep living and seek help for his depression. Just a few kind words were all it took to help him out of his suicidal funk.<\/p>\n “Sometimes people just need people,” Sanders said.\u00a0(Link<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Photo<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n Instead of waiting for the police to find the little girl, fifteen year-old Temar Boggs and his friend decided to start looking for her themselves. Soon, they spotted Rojas in a car with a man, so they began to follow the car on their bicycles. The teens followed the car for fifteen minutes as the man tried to lose them. Finally, he seemingly gave up, pulled over, and shoved the child from the car.<\/p>\n “She ran to me and said that she needed her mom,” Temar said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/life\/acts_of_kindness\/2009\/12\/20\/a_simple_act_of_kindness_saved_lives\/a_simple_act_of_kindness_savedlives.jpeg.size.xxlarge.letterbox.jpeg\")
\u00a0Kind Words from the Boss Kept This Man from Committing Suicide<\/h2>\n<\/center>Tim Sanders is a leadership coach and former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!. Sanders advises all of his employees to reach out to their workers and subordinates to show their appreciation for their work. He often tells the story of how he did just that, speaking to his staff individually, giving them positive feedback on their performance, and telling them that he appreciated their efforts. Sanders recalls telling one specific man how glad he was that the man come into his life.<\/p>\n\u00a0Teenagers Save Girl from Abduction<\/h2>\n<\/center>In July of 2013, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was playing in her front yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when she suddenly disappeared. Rojas’s parents feared the worst, so they alerted police and began a frantic search of their neighborhood.<\/p>\n