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Marie and Emile Taquet sheltered Jewish boys in a residential school or home. Bruno Reynders was a Belgian monk who defied the Nazis, as he implemented the directive of Pope Pius XII to save the Jews, worked with local orphanages, Catholic Nuns and the Belgian Underground to forge false identities for Jewish children whose parents willingly ...
Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek (who both died on 1 January 1965 in Jabłonna Lacka) [1] were a Polish husband and wife who sheltered several Jewish families consisting of 18 people during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II. They were posthumously bestowed the titles of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in September 2007.
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. [4]
Before the onset of war, the first pogrom in Nazi Germany was Kristallnacht, often called Pogromnacht, or "night of broken glass," in which Jewish homes were ransacked in numerous German cities along with 11,000 Jewish shops, towns and villages, [4] as civilians and SA stormtroopers destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets ...
Matthias Weniger, who is a curator at the Munich museum and oversees its restitution efforts, has made it his mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the ...
Siedliska massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by the Sonderdienst and German Gendarmerie (state rural police) in the village of Siedliska within occupied Poland. On March 15, 1943, five members of the Baranek family were executed for helping Jews. Also, four Jewish refugees were murdered with them.
In the first years of the Second World War, German policy in relation to the "Jewish question" in occupied Poland was not coherent and consistent. [1] Nevertheless, its fundamental aim was to isolate Jews, loot their property, exploit them through forced labour [1] [2] and, in the final stage, remove them completely from the land under the authority of the Third Reich. [2]
Their neighbours, the Kosior family, sheltered two Jewish men. In Rekówka two families, Kosior and Skoczylas, sheltered in their shared farm firstly two Jewish women from Ciepielów, and later four Jewish men. Polish families also provided other Jews with one-time shelter and food aid. [11] To some extent, Jews and their Polish helpers were ...