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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 ...
Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the Holocaust by Polish people, at risk to their lives and the lives of their families. According to Yad Vashem , Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, Poles were, by nationality, the most numerous persons identified as rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. [ 1 ]
On December 15, 1938, George Rublee, head of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, met in London on behalf of the president Roosevelt with Hjalmar Schacht, a well-known German industrialist and president of the Reichsbank, to ensure the emigration from Nazi Germany Jews to the United States, Great Britain and other countries.
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.
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 ...
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.
Arthur Arndt, M.D. (August 20, 1893 – January 13, 1974) was a German physician who went into hiding with his family in Berlin during the Holocaust.Arndt and his family received help from dozens of non-Jewish Germans, four of whom received the title Righteous Among the Nations in 1988.