In a column about the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, senior editor Luther Keith, notes that Guy Stern, longtime professor of German and Slavic languages at Wayne State, is co-founder of the Institute for Righteousness, which focuses on how humanitarian acts can be a powerful force for good in society. Sometimes however, Stern points out, "the righteous act may bring socially disastrous consequences" as it did for some Germans and others who helped save Jews from Nazi death camps in World War II.