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Bravery is not the absence of fear. It’s the acceptance that fear must be set aside and replaced by something that is so much more important.
Imagine that you are a doctor, in the midst of pursuing a career you’ve planned and studied for over many years, and then war breaks out. Not exactly something you planned for, nor something you can even escape.
It’s World War II
You are an Italian doctor and as such, at the forefront of some sickening realities as you go about your daily work in the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, an ancient building tucked safely away on a tiny island that sits amidst Rome’s Tiber River, and fortuitously, (as it later turned out), close to a Jewish Ghetto.
German troops are occupying your country, seeking out, and rounding up Italian Jews, and transporting them to concentration camps, where most of them will meet their death.
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