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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 ...
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.
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.
At that time, several families from Stary Ciepielów and neighbouring Rekówka sheltered Jewish refugees. Among them were Piotr and Helena Obuchiewicz from Stary Ciepielów who hid in their farm a Jewish hat-maker from Ciepielów of unknown identity. Their neighbours, the Kosior family, sheltered two Jewish men.
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 ...
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 ]
A number of bishops provided aid to Polish Jews, notably Karol Niemira, the Bishop of Pinsk, who cooperated with the underground organization maintaining ties with the Jewish Ghetto and sheltered Jews in the Archbishop's residence. [170] Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic businessman came to Poland, initially to profit from the German invasion.
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]