"Forget You
Not"™:
H o l o c a u s t
S u r v i v
o r s a
n d R e m e
m b r a n c e
P r o j e c t
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T A B L E
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Raoul
Wallenberg
is credited with saving
the lives of
tens of thousands of
Jews,
but was unable to save
his own.
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Raoul
Wallenberg, who
stared the Nazi beast
straight in the eye and
refused to blink, the
soft-spoken Swede who
saved more Jews in the
Holocaust than any
single rescuer --indeed,
more than most
countries-- disappeared
on January 17,
1945. Taken away by the
Soviet Red Army troops
in Budapest and send to
a Soviet gulag, he never
was seen again.
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Preamble:
Defining
the Righteous
In the Context
of
the Holocaust
by
Irena
Steinfeldt,
the current
Director of
The
Righteous
Among the
Nations
Department of
Yad Vashem.
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The Righteous Among
the Nations are
defined as those few
who risked their
lives to help Jews.
When
Yad Vashem was
established to
commemorate the six
million Jews
murdered in the
Shoah, the Knesset
added yet another
task to the
Holocaust
Remembrance
Authority's mission:
to honor the
Righteous Among the
Nations --those
non-Jews who had
taken great risks to
save Jews during the
Holocaust. The
Righteous program is
an unprecedented
attempt by the
victims of an
unparalleled crime
to search within the
nations of
perpetrators,
collaborators and
bystanders for
persons who bucked
the general trend of
indifference,
acquiescence and
collaboration.
The
motivation for the
establishment of
this unique program
was a deep sense of
gratitude toward the
minority that stood
by the Jewish
people, but there
seems to have been
an added dimension.
In a world where
Auschwitz had become
a real possibility,
the Jewish people
and the survivors
needed to hang on to
some hope for
mankind, something
that would enable
them to maintain
their faith in human
values and rebuild
their lives after
having witnessed an
unprecedented moral
collapse.
During
the Holocaust the
mainstream watched
as their former
neighbors were
rounded up and
killed; some
collaborated with
the perpetrators;
many benefited from
the expropriation of
the Jews' property.
Only a small
minority felt that
the persecuted Jews
were part of their
universe of
obligation and that
it was their duty to
act.
Help
and rescue of Jews
took many forms and
required varying
degrees of
involvement and
self-sacrifice.
Manifestations of
sympathy and
maintaining social
contacts with the
Jewish outcasts,
providing moral
encouragement, food,
housing or money,
warning about
upcoming arrests or
razzias, offering
advice as to hiding
possibilities are
only some of the
forms of help that
survivors describe
in their
testimonies.
ALTHOUGH
THESE humane and
generous deeds were
often crucial to the
Jews' ability to
survive, the Yad
Vashem law uses a
more restrictive
characterization. By
defining the
Righteous as persons
"who risked their
lives to save Jews,"
the lawmakers
delineated a small
group within these
wider circles of men
and women who helped
and supported Jews
in the darkest hour
of Jewish history.
The
Righteous according
to this definition
were people who not
only helped the
Jews, but were
willing to leave
their relatively
safe positions as
bystanders; people
who were prepared,
if necessary, to pay
a price for their
stand and even share
the victims' fate;
who felt that an
unprecedented crime
required exceptional
responses, and that
faced with ultimate
evil, mere
manifestations of
sympathy were no
longer sufficient;
they believed that
the situation
required more than
just doing the right
thing - that there
was something that
superceded their
personal safety.
The
challenge facing the
Commission for the
Designation of the
Righteous,
therefore, is to
draw a clear line
through a spectrum
of multifaceted
human behavior and
situations. This is,
no doubt, a
formidable task.
When the Commission
for the Designation
of the Righteous was
established in 1962,
the program's
founding fathers
must have realized
that the newly
formed body would
face extremely
complex questions,
and therefore
decided to nominate
a Supreme Court
justice as the
commission's chair.
In the 47 years of
its existence, the
commission has
strictly observed
its independence
under the guidance
of the commission's
successive chairs.
Each
case is meticulously
researched before it
is submitted to the
commission. Based on
the documentation
gathered, the
commission then goes
on to discuss the
case and to examine
if the rescue
involved risk and if
it accords with the
other criteria that
the commission
developed over the
years.
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From The
Jerusalem Post,
April 8, 2009
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II. Heroes and Heroines of
the Holocaust
1. Memories of Courage
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The
Holocaust is not only a
story of destruction and
loss;
it is a story of an
apathetic world and a few
rare individuals of
extraordinary courage.
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- The "Righteous Among
the Nations" Title and Program offered
by the State of Israel
through Yad Vashem,
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority
- TO SAVE ONE LIFE
The Story of Righteous Gentiles
- Catholic Heroes of the
Holocaust
- Catholic Martyrs of
the Holocaust
- Polish Righteous
- German anti-Nazi
cleric, Cardinal Clemens August von
Galen, heads for sainthood
- The Simon Wiesenthal
Center Photo Album of the Righteous
- From Yad Vashem:
Statistics and Some Profiles of the
Righteous by Country
- From Yad Vashem: Solidarity
and Rescue
Romanian Righteous Among the Nation
- Bambili's Rigteuous
Among The Nations website
- A List Of Holocaust
Rescuers
Courtesy of Florida
Center for Instructional Technology,
College of Education, University of
South Florida, USA.
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# Joseph Andre was a Belgian
abbot who helped rescue
hundreds of Jewish children
and encouraged them to remain
in the Jewish faith.
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Germaine Belline and Liliane
Gaffney
explain how they hid 30 Jews
in Belgium.
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Ivan Beltrami was able to
use his position as an intern
to protect Jews in a hospital
infirmary.
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Esther Bem relates how
she and her family were hidden
in an Italian village.
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Marie Benoit was a French
Capuchin monk who arranged for
the rescue of thousands of
Jews.
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Bert Bochove describes at
length how he and his wife
Annie saved the lives of many
Jews in Holland during the
war.
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Anna and Jaruslav Chlup cared for
Herman Feder, a Jewish man who
escaped from a train on its
way to a death camp.
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John Damski barely
escaped execution while a
Polish political prisoner.
Upon release he helped many
Jews in Poland to escape the
ghetto, obtain false
documents, and find work.
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Jean Deffaugt, mayor of a
French town on the Swiss
border, aided Jews caught
crossing the border.
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Marc Donadille was a
Protestant minister who
rescued about 80 Jewish
children in France.
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Miep Gies was one of
those who attempted to hide
Anne Frank and her family.
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Marie-Rose Gineste harbored Jews
in Montauben, France.
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The Gorniak Family hid Jews in
their hayloft.
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Marian Halicki hid a group
of Jews in his workroom.
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Hermann Friedrich Grabe used his
position as a foreman to
employ and protect many Jews.
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Paul Gruninger was a Swiss
official who disobeyed his
government by allowing some
thirty-six hundred Jews to
cross illegally into
Switzerland.
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Emilie Guth and Ermine Orsi were French
Protestants who hid Jews in
the Le Chambon area of France.
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Franciska Halamajowa hid Jews in
her hayloft and cellar.
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Adelaide Hautval was a French
physician who defied the Nazis
and assisted those in need at
Auschwitz and Birkenau.
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Esta Heiber tells how she
was able to rescue 20 Jewish
children in Belgium.
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Father Jacques de Jésus was a
Carmelite friar and headmaster
of the Petit Collège
Sainte-Thérèse de l '
Enfant-Jésus. His attempt to
rescue four Jewish boys is
remembered in the film Au
Revoir les Enfants.
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Father Jacques' stay in
Mauthausen and Gusen camps is
remembered at this site.
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Antonin Kalina, a Communist
political prisoner, was able
to protect 1,300 children in
Buchenwald.
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Helen L.
tells how an older Russian
soldier's compassion helped
save her life.
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Barbara Szymanska Makuch chronicles
her aid to Jews in
Nazi-occupied Poland. The
Nazis imprisoned her for her
work in the underground.
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Laura
Margolis' relief
efforts among the Jewish
refugees in the Shanghai
ghetto saved many lives.
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Mihael Michaelov explains how
he helped Jews in Bulgaria
during the Holocaust.
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Ellen Nielsen tells how she
helped Jews escape by boat to
Sweden.
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Marion P., a Dutch
rescuer, hid a number of Dutch
Jews. (Photo, video, audio,
and text)
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Dimitar Peshev helped to
rescue Jews in Bulgaria.
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Mirjam Pinkhof worked with
Joop Westerweel in Holland,
finding refuge for German
children who had been sent
there by their parents for
safety after Kristallnacht.
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Tina Strobos tells the
story of an active member of
the Dutch underground.
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Pastor Andre Trocme lead an
effort in the French
Protestant village of Le
Chambon to save some
3,000-5,000 Jews.
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Twelve Jesuit Priests Awarded with "The Righteous Among
the Nations"
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Roger Braun
(1910-1981) -
France
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Pierre Chaillet
(1900-1972) -
France
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Jean-Baptist De Coster
(1896-1968) -- Belgium
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Jean Fleury
(1905-1982) -- France
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Emile Gessler
(1891-1958) -- Belgium
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John B. Janssens
(1889-1964) -
Belgium
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Alphonse Lambrette
(1884-1970) -- Belgium
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Emile Planckaert
(1906-2006) -
France
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Jacob Raile
(1894-1949)
-Hungary
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Henri Revol
(1904-1992) -
France
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Adam Sztark
(1907-1942) -
Poland
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Henri Van Oostayen
(1906 -1945)
-Belgium
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Credit:
Rev. Vincent
A. Lapomarda,
S.J., College
of the Holy
Cross, MA,
USA.
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- Rescuers Speech
- Three Great Acts of
Heroism and Humility
  
2. Two Countries,
Denmark and Bulgaria, that Stood Out and
Made a Difference
The Holocaust and Denmark --A Country of Blessed
Memory
Five Pictures from the German-occupied Denmark that
speak
volumes...
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Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that
managed to
save 95% of
its Jewish
residents.
Following a
tip-off by a
German
diplomat,
thousands of
Jews were
evacuated to
neutral
Sweden.
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This is one of the great untold stories of World War II:
In 1943, in
the German
occupied
Denmark, the
Danes found
out that all
7,500 Danish
Jews were
about to be
rounded up and
deported to
German death
camps. The
Danish people
made their own
decision: it's
not going to
happen ...
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Bulgaria --
A Most Significant and
Complex Case of the
Holocaust
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King
Boris III --a Hero or a
Villain of the Holocaust?
King Boris III (left) in a peril
game of defiance and compromise
with Hitler:
that led saving almost all of
his 50,000 Bulgarian Jews at the
expense of some 12,000 Jews from
Macedonia and Thrace
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In
1945, the Jewish
population of
Bulgaria was still
about 50,000, its
prewar level. Next
to the rescue of
Danish Jews,
Bulgarian Jewry's
escape from
deportation and
extermination
represents the most
significant
exception of any
Jewish population in
Nazi-occupied
Europe. [USHMM]
During the war,
German-allied Bulgaria
did not deport
Bulgarian Jews.
Bulgaria did, however,
deport non-Bulgarian
Jews from the
territories it had
annexed from
Yugoslavia and Greece.
[USHMM]
The Bulgarian
people rallied support
for the Jews under the
leadership of King
Boris III, whose
personal defiance of
Hitler and refusal to
supply troops to the
Russian front or
cooperate with
deportation requests
set an example for his
country. [ADL]
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Reference
Material On the
Saving of
Bulgarian Jews
from the
Holocaust:
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3. Names
of Some True Heroes of the Holocaust:
3A). Raul Wallenberg
and Oscar Schindler --Two Legendary
Rescuers of Jews
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Photo of
Raoul Wallenberg at his
desk in Budapest.
Raoul
Wallenberg
at his office in Budapest.
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To see an
enlarged Schutz-Pass,
please click in here.
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"Here is a man
who had the choice of
remaining in secure, neutral
Sweden when Nazism was ruling
Europe. Instead, he left this
haven and went to what was
then one of the most perilous
places in Europe. And for
what? To save Jews. He won
this battle and I feel that in
this age when there is so
little to believe in -- so
very little on which our young
people can pin their hopes and
ideals -- he is a person to
show the world, which knows so
little about him. That is why
I believe the story of Raoul
Wallenberg should be told ..."
-- Attorney
Gideon Hausner, Prosecutor of
Adolf Eichmann.
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3B).
Nicholas Winton of UK, Jan
Karski of Poland,
and Zerah Warhaftig, a
founding father of modern
Israel --Saviors of
Thousands of Jewish Lives
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A Rare
Historic Photograph: Sugihara
with Warhaftig
[Courtesy of Visas For
Life Foundation]
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confused with Eric Saul's
Bogus "Visas For Life"
Exhibit Project)
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3C). Varian Fry and
Martha & Rev. Waitstill Sharp --the
Only Americans Recognized by Yad Vashem
as
Heroes of the Holocaust
- Varian Fry
-- An American Hero
[In August
1940, Varian Fry, a
Harvard-educated American
journalist arrived in
Marseilles "to rescue what is
left of European culture
before it is too late." He
meant people, not works of
art. Before the borders of
Vichy France were closed, he
lead in the escape of over
1500 people into Spain. Among
the people he rescued were
Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall,
the Surrealists Max Ernst,
Andre Breton and Andre Masson
and Alma Mahler-Werfel. In
1996, Fry was named as
"Righteous Among the Nations"
by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust
Heros and Martyrs Remembrance
Authority in Jerusalem -- the
first and only American
recipient of Israel's highest
honor for rescuers during the
Holocaust.]
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3D). Diplomats that
Made a Difference
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Most, but
not all, of Europe's
consulates turned Jews away.
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Per
Anger, Sweden
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Lars Berg,
Sweden
<> Friedrich
Born, Switzerland
<> Angel
Sanz-Briz, Spain
<> Carl
Ivan Danielson,
Sweden
<> Georg
Ferdinand
Duckwitz, Germany
<> Francis
Foley, UK
<> Waldemar
Langlet, Sweden
<> Charles
"Carl" Lutz,
Switzerland
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Aristides
de Sousa Mendes,
Portugal
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Giorgio
"Jorge" Perlasca,
Italy
<> Ernst
Prodolliet,
Switzerland
<> Aracy
de
Carvalho-Guimaraes
Rosa, Brazil
<> Monsignor
Angelo Rotta,
Italy
<> Jose
Santaella, Spain
<> Chiune
(Sempo) Sugihara,
Japan
<> Selahattin
Ülkümen, Turkey
<> Raoul
Wallenberg, Sweden
<> Jan
Zwartendijk, The
Netherlands
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3E).
Ordinary People that Became
Extraordinary Through Their
Acts of Humanity and Courage
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In
the dark history
of the
Holocaust, we
can see a few,
very few,
shining examples
of courage and
defiance against
the overwhelming
evil. In the
face of cruelty
and danger, some
people refused
to be bystanders
and acted, often
paying with
their own lives.
May their
blessed memory
stay forever in
the conscience
of humanity.
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Irena
Adamowicz, (1910
-1963), Christian
Pole
who
aided various
ghetto underground
movements during
World War II.
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Born
in Warsaw,
Adamowicz was a
religious Catholic
and one of the
leaders of the
Polish scout
movement. She
earned her social
work degree at the
University of
Warsaw. During the
1930s she
developed an
attachment to the
Ha-Shomer
ha-Tsa'ir Jewish
Zionist Youth
Movement, and she
even took part in
its educational
and social work
activities.
During
the summer of 1942
Adamowicz risked
her life by
carrying out
perilous missions
for the Jewish
underground
organizations in
the Warsaw,
Bialystok, Vilna,
Kovno, and
Siauliai ghettos.
She both carried
important messages
between the
different ghettos
and boosted the
morale of the Jews
imprisoned in
them. She also
helped to
establish contact
between the Jewish
underground
organizations and
the Home Army (the
Polish underground
militia).
After
the war, Adamowicz
stayed in close
contact with the
surviving members
of the Zionist
pioneer movements
she had worked
with and aided.
She was designated
as Righteous Among
the Nations by Yad
Vashem. [Source: Yad Vashem]
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Irena
Sendlerowa
("Jolonta"),
(1916-), Christian
Pole
who
aided various
ghetto underground
movements during
World War II.
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As
head of the
children's section
of Zegota,
the Polish
underground
Council for Aid to
Jews, social
worker Irena
Sendlerowa
("Jolonta") helped
smuggle more than
2,500 Jewish
children out of
the Warsaw ghetto.
Hiding them in
orphanages,
convents, schools,
hospitals, and
private homes, she
provided each
child with a new
identity,
carefully
recording in code
their original
names and
placements so that
surviving
relatives could
find them after
the war. Arrested
by the Gestapo
(German secret
state police) in
the fall of 1943,
Sendlerowa was
sentenced to
death. Zegota
rescued her before
execution. She
assumed a new
identity and
continued her work
for Zegota.
[Source: USHMM]
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Ona
Simaite,
(1899-1970), of
Lithuania
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Ona
Simaite, a
librarian at Vilna
University, used
her position to
aid and rescue
Jews in the Vilna
ghetto. Entering
the ghetto under
the pretext of
recovering library
books from Jewish
university
students, she
smuggled in food
and other
provisions and
smuggled out
literary and
historical
documents. In
1944, the Nazis
arrested and
tortured Simaite.
She was then
deported to Dachau
and later
transferred to a
concentration camp
in southern
France. She
remained in France
following her
liberation. [Source: USHMM]
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Joop
Westerweel
(1899-1944), of
The Netherlands
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A
teacher in a
progressive
school, Joop
Westerweel helped
organize an escape
route for young
Jews fleeing the
Netherlands during
the German
occupation. From
December 1942
through 1944, his
underground group
smuggled between
150 and 200 Jews
to Belgium, on to
France, and from
there into
Switzerland and
Spain. Captured by
the Nazis and
imprisoned in the
Vught
concentration
camp, Westerweel
was tortured but
refused to reveal
his network of
contacts. He was
executed on August
1, 1944. [Source: USHMM]
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Johan
Benders
(01.07.1907 -
06.04.1943), of
The Netherlands
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Johan
Benders
took his own
life rather
than reveal
the
whereabouts of
those Jews
whom he had
helped to
rescue. He was
a teacher at
the Amsterdam
Lyceum where
he had made no
secret of his
anger over the
expulsion of
Jews from the
school.
Benders had
encouraged the
older
students, such
as Tineke
Guilonard*, to
become
involved in
the
falsification
of identity
and ration
cards. Johan's
wife,
Gerritdina,
who worked as
a speech
therapist,
assisted
wherever
possible, and
the couple
opened their
home as a
temporary
shelter for
Jews. [Source:
Yad Vashem]
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During
the German occupation, the
Bogaards saved more than 300
Jews, many of whom were
children. Shown are two
Bogaard brothers holding
hands with young Jewish
guests on their farm, 14
miles southwest of
Amsterdam.
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 Father
Bruno, a Belgian monk of
blessed memory saved 320
Jewish children.
<sussex.ac.uk/press_office/media/media533.shtml>
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... Genia then and
55 years latter
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Reunited in New York in 1998 by the
Jewish
Foundation for
the Righteous
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... Julian then and
55 years latter
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Dr.
Janus Korczak, a
Jewish pediatrician
from Poland, was a
writer, educator,
founder of an original
system of education,
and patron of children
to whom he remained
faithful to the end.
Not wanting to abandon
the orphans entrusted
to his care in the
Warsaw ghetto when
they were condemned to
death by the Nazis,
Korczak refused a
chance to save
himself. He was
voluntarily deported,
with the children of
his orphanage, on
August 6, 1942 and
died with them at
Treblinka. [Photo Credit:
Meczenstwo Walka,
Zaglada Zydów Polsce
1939-1945. Poland.
No. 234.]
Memoral
sculpture for Dr. Korczak from
Israel, at right. [For
detail, please click on
the picture.]
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Israeli
Memorial Stamp
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."Janusz
Korczak and the
Children" at Yad
Vashem
The
Janusz Korczak
Living Heritage
Association
.A
Tributary Drawing to
Dr. Janusz Korczak
by Jo Polak, a Dutch
teacher at
Farelcollege,
Ridderkerk, The
Netherlands
[For Jo
Polak, Dr.
Korczak represents a
source of continuous
inspiration in his
daily work wth
youngsters.]
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In
Orphans' Twilight,
Memories of a Doomed
Utopia
From
Israel remembering
Janusz Korczak
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- Barbara Szymanska
Makuch, Polish Rescuer of Jews
- Ura Margolis, Rescuer
of Jews (Died, at the age of 93, on
September 9, 1997)
- Aristedes
Mendes, Portuguese Ambassador to
France During the War
- Jean-Marie and Benoît
Musy: Father and Son Holocaust
Rescuers that saved some 1200 Jews
from the Holocaust
- Preben Munch-Nielsen,
Danish Holocaust Rescuer
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"I
don't understand that to act
in a decent way is so
unique..."
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- Halina Szymanska
Ogrodzinska,
Polish Rescuer and the
sister of Barbara Szymanska Makuch,
Tells her Story
Giovanni Palatucci,
Unlikely Holocaust Italian Hero,
Honored by Yad Vashem
- Monsignor Beniamino
Schivo --the Protector and Saver of
Two German Jews
- Ona Simaite (of
Lithuania ), Joop Westerweel (of The
Netherlands), Irena Sendlerowa (of
Poland)
- France -- Heroes of
the Holocaust
- Father Antanas Gobis
-- a Lithuanian Priest saving a 12
years old Jewish girl as told by Golda
Wainberg-Tatz, the daughter whose
mother was saved
- Righteous Gentiles Who
Helped Jews in Lithuania
- St. Joseph Church of
Bristol, Connecticut, USA, Names Some
True Heroes
- The Danish Heroes of
the Holocaust
- List of Poles Killed
Helping Jews During the Holocaust
- Diplomats of Uncommon
Courage
- Holocaust Hero: Gut
Opdyke --a Polish Catholic woman, who,
as a teenager, helped hundreds of Jews
survive the Holocaust
and author of "Into
The Flames" and "In My Hands," shares
her Holocaust experiences at Jewish
Academy in Agoura Hills, USA
- Marion Pritchard, a
"Righteous Among Nations": She shot a
Nazi to save Jewish children
- Suzanne and Henri
Ribouleau (and their two sons Rene and
Marcel) of France
saved 2 Jewish neighbour children,
brother and sister, Leon and Rachel
Epstein
Suzanne and Henri
Ribouleau
in 1954 being honored in Israel
- The Schouten family of
The Netherlands saving the little girl
Lore Baer
- Margit Slachta and the
early rescue of Jewish families,
1939-42
- Tina Strobos, Dutch
Rescuer of Jews
- André Trocmé,
Protestant Pastor of Le Chambon,
France
- Nikolai Zarenov of
Latvia awarded on April 4, 2004 the
"Righteous Among Nations" title by
Yad Vashem
- Dr. Julius Zubli,
Dutch Physician and Honored Rescuer
Recognized by Yad Vashem
- Johanna and Aart Vos
of The Netherlands
- One Photo: the Jarusz
Family
- Stories of Moral
Courage
- Five Portraits of
Moral Courage in the Holocaust
- More Stories of
Courage: The Rescuers
- Holocaust Survivor
Reunited With Rescuer After Some 60
Years!
- Album Of Rescuers
- Rescuers and Their
Profiles
- 442 Slovak Righteous
Among Nations in a country that was
the only one
to have paid the Nazi
Germany to deport its Jews
- A story of a U.S.
Officer (Lt. John Withers)
that broke the rules to let his men
take in 2 young Dachau survivors
- Hanneke Ippisch, a
World War II Dutch Resistance spy and
Holocaust witness
4. Heroes of
the Holocaust from the
Nazi Germany
- Heroes of
the Holocaust from Germany
.
- Oskar and Emilie Schindler
- Abegg, Elisabeth***
- Althoff, Maria Althoff, Adolf
- Beitz, Berthold
- Dr. H.G. Calmeyer
- Duckwitz, Georg Ferdinand
- Graebe, Hermann Friedrich
- Harder, Loni Harder, Albert
- Luckner, Dr. Gertrud
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- Mörike, Dr. Otto & Gertrud
- Oppenheim, Baron Friedrich Carl von
- Rossner, Alfred
- Schroeder, Gustav
- Wegner, Armin T.
- Weidt, Otto
- Maas, Hermann
- Lichtenberg, Bernhard
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*** Elizabeth
Abegg, a
Berlin school
teacher
(dismissed by
the
authorities
for her
pronounced
anti-Nazi
views), and a
believing
Quaker, helped
many of her
former Jewish
students, as
well as other
Jews in
distress, find
shelter and
comfort and
helped secure
funds with
which they
hoped to reach
the Swiss
border. She
fed Jews, sold
her own
possessions to
get money, got
ration cards
and visas, and
found safe
places for
them in and
out of the
country. Her
help to a
group in
hiding helped
save at least
24 Jewish
children.
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5. Jewish Rescuers: On the Recognition
of Righteous Jews
6. The
Nameless Rescuers
7. Tributes
to Rescuers:
The
British Nicholas Winton,
Rescuer of 669 Jewish
Children from the
Holocaust in
Czechoslovakia,
Dies in 2015 at Age 106
in Maidenhead, England
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In
Front of the Righteous, I
Bow
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by
Chaim Chefer
I hear this
title and it makes me think
About the people who saved
me.
I ask and ask "Oh, my dear
God,
Could I have done the same
thing?"
In a sea of hate stood my
home,
Could I shelter a foreign
son in my home?
Would I be willing along
with my family
Constantly be threatened by
certain evil?
Sleepless dark nights
watching out for noise
Hearing footsteps of certain
evil.
Would I be able to
understand every sign,
Would I be ready for this,
could I walk like this
Among those who would betray
Not one day, not one week,
but so many years!
There a
suspicious neighbor, there a
look,
and here a sound --
For that one -- warm --
brotherly clasping of my
hand...
Not having any pension --
not having anything for
this.
Because a person to person
must be a people.
Because a people comes at
this time through--
So I ask you and ask you
once more &endash;
Could I have done the same
if I was in their place?
It was they
who went to war every day.
It was they who made the
world a place for me.
It was they, the pillars,
the Righteous brother,
Who this day this world is
founded by.
For your
courage, and for your warm
extended hand
In front of you , the
Righteous, I bow.
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To see the
Poem's original Hebrew
version from Yad Vashem,
please click in here.
Its English translation
appears in "Those Who
Helped" in 1996 and in
1997.
(Published
by The Main Commision for the
Investigation of Crimes
Against the Polish Nation
and The Polish Society for the
Righteous Among the Nations,
Warsaw, 1996.)
Credits:
<savingjews.org>,
<citinet.net/ak/polska_27_f2.html>
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