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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 ...
The entire village of Mulawicze near Bielsk Podlaski took responsibility for the survival of an orphaned nine-year-old Jewish boy. [108] Different families took turns hiding a Jewish girl at various homes in Wola Przybysławska near Lublin, [109] and around Jabłoń near Parczew many Polish Jews successfully sought refuge. [110]
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.
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]
During the Holocaust, some members of the Catholic Church were involved in rescuing Jews from persecution in Nazi Germany.They lobbied Axis officials, provided false documents, and hid people in monasteries, convents schools with sympathetic families, and whithin the institutions of the Vatican itself, members of the Catholic Church saved hundreds of thousands of Jews.
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 ...
The Newest Period. Chapter Six. The Nazis' Rise to Power in Germany and the Genocide of European Jewry during World War II. History of the Jewish People. Jerusalem: Aliya Library, pp. 541–560, p. 687. 3000 copies. 2001. ISBN 978-5-93273-050-8. Statistical data. The destruction of Jews in the USSR during the German occupation (1941-1944).
The German invasion of Poland (1 September 1939) and the formation of Jewish ghettos caused hunger and poverty, crowding and unsanitary conditions, which in turn actually created typhus epidemics in occupied Poland. German physicians and public health officials in the Nazi regime did not acknowledge this; instead, German medical professionals ...