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Death penalty for the rescue of Jews in occupied Poland Public announcement NOTICE Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews. There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the decree of 15 October 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty ...
The collection includes eight forged Paraguayan passports as well as correspondence between persons to be rescued and Polish diplomats and Jewish organisations, photos of Jews seeking to obtain the documents, and a list of thousands of individuals, Polish Jews in ghettos in occupied Poland, who corresponded with the rescue activists.
He helped to hide or rescue several Polish people, including Jews, in Nazi-German occupied Poland, and helped Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944, an act which was portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.
Jan Żabiński (pronounced [ˈjan ʐabiˈɲski]) (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974) and his wife Antonina Żabińska (née Erdman) (1908–1971) were a Polish couple from Warsaw, recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. [1]
The Ulma family (Polish: Rodzina Ulmów) or Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children (Polish: Józef i Wiktoria Ulmowie z siedmiorgiem Dzieci) were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust.
Pages in category "Polish people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Irene Gut Opdyke, who saved 12 Jews during the Holocaust, is among the subjects of a new campaign commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A Nazi officer's housekeeper hid 12 Jews in ...
The most dramatic was the rescue of people suffering in the ghetto from the typhoid fever. Borysowicz treated Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Combat Organization instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Most of his patients however, did not survive the Holocaust. [10] Anielewicz died in the Uprising. [11]