The Courage and Compassion To Do the Right Thing. Terraces of Los Gatos proudly presents: Speaker and Author Marty Brounstein, in an engaging storytelling presentation from his book, "Two Among The Righteous Few - A Story of Courage in the Holocaust.

Doing the right thing was a challenge in the days of the Holocaust, when those protecting Jews and others from Nazi concentration camps could face the same fate if caught. Those who hid Jews or aided them in escaping to places where they might avoid internment in concentration camps were called “The Righteous Few.”

Two among them were Frans and Mien Wijnakker, a Christian Dutch couple whose mission to rescue Jews from Nazi clutches was memorialized in their village of Dieden, in the south of the Netherlands, where Frans also recorded oral histories before his death.

Now the Wijnakkers’ story has been given a new voice by Marty Brounstein, a San Mateo consultant and author who has written a book that describes how the couple became involved in assuring the survival of about two dozen Jews, including an infant, who were being hunted by Nazis.

Brounstein will talk about his book, “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust,” and related stories at a presentation at The Terraces of Los Gatos, Tuesday, June 2.

Brounstein and his wife, Leah, visited the Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, where a section called “The Righteous Among the Nations” honors Christians and other non-Jews who risked their own lives to rescue Jews. Among them, Oskar Schindler, whose story was told in the movie “Schindler’s List.” The author and his wife also visited Dieden, where he learned he had his own personal connection to the story he discovered there, and now his story has caught the attention of a Hollywood production company, where efforts are underway to turn it into a feature film.

Since the book’s publication, Brounstein has spoken more than 365 times in the past four years to school children, business firms, community organizations and others, traveling to Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Canada to describe the story he discovered in Dieden, one of the happier-ending Holocaust remembrances of that tragic era. He will speak at 7:00 pm at The Terraces of Los Gatos, 800 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos. For more information, contact Judy Hackett (408) 357-1144. Brounstein’s website is www.MartyABrounstein.com and his Facebook page is www.facebook.com/MartyA.Brounstein.