m ever happening again.
             After assessing the victims and perpetrators and dismissing them as unlikely candidates for the ordinary members of society, Ozick focuses directly on the majority of the participants of the Holocaust – the bystanders. She pointedly asks:
             But what of the bystanders? They were not the criminals, after all. For the bystanders we should feel at least the pale warmth of recognition - call it self-recognition. And nowadays it is the bystander whom we most notice, though at the time, while the crimes were in progress, they seemed the least noticeable. We notice them now because they are the ones we most readily identify with. They are the ones imagination can most readily accommodate. A bystander is like you and me, the ordinary human article.... (169)
             Ozick states that the bystanders are just ordinary people who played it safe, like you and me. Back then, the bystanders may have been able to fade into the background; however, now that we are looking back and identifying with them we must wonder what they were
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