Second-generation Holocaust survivors like me felt a particular chill on the first night of Hanukkah. Jews were being hunted down, again. And like so many around the world, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ahmed Al Ahmed, the hero who protected the Sydney Jewish community from even more death and violence by Muslim fanatics, risking his life without expectation of reward.

My mother survived the Holocaust because someone in Belgium made a similar, extraordinary choice. Louise Anciaux, a Catholic headmistress, hid my mother and her sister as schoolgirls for 18 months until liberation. Like Ahmed, she acted........

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