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Katarzyna and Sebastian Kazak – the Kazak family from Brzóza Królewska, have repeatedly granted temporary shelter to Jewish refugees. On March 23, 1943, German gendarmes appeared on the Kazak farm with the assistance of "blue policemen". They found three Jews who were shot on the spot. The spouses Sebastian and Katarzyna Kazak were also ...
Lois Mary Gunden was born on February 25, 1915, in Flanagan, Illinois [1] [2] to Agnes Albrecht and Christian Gunden. [1] [3] Her family, with nine children, were Mennonites.[2] [3] They moved to Goshen, Indiana to have their children educated at the college.
With the beginning of the German army's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, a stream of Jewish refugees from that country rushed east. [41] At first, the USSR did not hinder the Polish Jews , but then closed the borders and sent the fleeing Jews back to the territory occupied by the Germans.
Rufino Niccacci, a Franciscan friar and priest who sheltered Jewish refugees in Assisi, Italy, from September 1943 through June 1944. Maximilian Kolbe – Polish Conventual Franciscan friar. During the Second World War, in the friary, Kolbe provided shelter to people from Greater Poland, including 2,000 Jews. He was also active as a radio ...
Andre was very active in the rescue of Jews, handing over his own bed to Jewish refugees, finding families to hide them, and distributing food as well as communications between families. He is credited with saving some 200 lives and was forced into hiding in the final stages of the war.
During the German occupation of the Netherlands, the Voses saved a total of 36 lives. After the war, the Voses was honored with the Righteous Among the Nations award. [ 9 ] They tried to adopt a young girl they had sheltered, but the Jewish community, anxious to preserve her Jewish identity, send her instead to an orphanage.
Working with the World Jewish Congress and other relief agencies, Henry Morgenthau set up the War Refugee Board and was able to save 200,000 Jews from being shipped to Nazi death camps, such as ...
Frank Foley risked his life to save the lives of thousands of German Jews. Without the protection of diplomatic immunity he visited internment camps and sheltered Jewish refugees in his house. Frank Foley was a true British hero. It is right that we should honour him at the British Embassy in Berlin, not far from where he once worked.