The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
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Fries, Libuse: her courageous acts
Friesland province (Holland): rescuers from
Fritsch, Franz: helps Jews
Frumkin, Si: reflects on the Righteous, xxi
Fry, Varian: helps Jews
Fuchs, Hertha and Kurt: rescuers, and their fate
Fuchs-Wartski, Marysia: saved, in Austria
Fuhrer, Yekel: in Schindler’s infirmary
Fulbert, Father: shelters Jews
Fürth (Germany): a Displaced Persons camp at
Fussi, Neila: gives refuge to a Jewish refugee
Gadeikyte, Julija and Pranas: hide six Jews
Galilee (Israel): a German Righteous settles in
Galili, Yocheved: and a German rescuer
Gallay, Abbé Simon: helps Jews escape
Gandhi, Mahatma: and ‘heroic altruism’
Gandino (Italy): a German-Jewish family given refuge in
‘Garbarczyk’: a name in hiding
Garbus, Lisa: recounts her family story
Garel, Georges: and an ecumenical rescue effort
Garfinkel, Helen and Fishel: rescue, and danger
Garfinkel, Kalman and Sara: sent two of their children to safety
Garfinkel, Sonia: receives a new identity
Garfunkel, Rachel: betrayed
Garkauskas, Mr: saves Jews; denounced
Garrard, John and Carol: list the Righteous in Brest-Litovsk
Gartenberg, Halina: hidden
Garwolin (Poland): a rescuer in
Gastruccio, Aldo: an Italian, helps Jews in Salonika
Gawrylkewicz, Antoni: warns Jews
Gazzaniga (Italy): a Jewish brother and sister given refuge in
Gdud, Vova: saved
Gechman, Dr Elias: helped by Polish fellow-prisoners
Gehre, Max and Anni: rescuers, in Berlin
Gelber, Maurycy: rescued
Gelozo, General Carlo: rejects a German appeal for help
General-Government (of German-occupied Poland): a protest from; acts of rescue in; mass murder in; punishments for helping Jews in; and a protest
Genoa (Italy): Jews from, found refuge in the countryside
‘Gerard, François and Jean-Louis’: and an assumed identity
Gerlier, Cardinal (Archbishop of Lyons): helps find hiding places for Jews; refuses to surrender Jewish children
German Catholic Peace Movement: and an active helper
German Confessional Church: and a Righteous act
German Green Police (Holland): an unsuccessful raid by
Germans: and ‘a friend of the Jews’ and a village rescue effort; and a laundry in Tamopol; and a factory hideout; and a warning to Jews in hiding; and a ‘soft-hearted Nazi officer’ and a Jewish couple in hiding; and a Righteous doctor; beyond Germany, Righteous acts of
Germany: and the Jews, xix–xx; refugees from; a Jew in, helps his rescuer after the war; post-war internment in; rescuers in; refugees from, find eventual sanctuary in France; a Benedictine monk’s distressing visit to (1938); a teenager from, finds sanctuary in Holland; refugee children from, find sanctuary in Italy; a Jewish girl protected in a munitions factory in
Geron, Bernard: finds sanctuary; with his rescuer and his rescuer’s son, Photo
Gerritsen, Gradus: a rescuer, shot
Gersfelt, Dr Jorgen: helps Jews escape
Gerstein, SS Lieutenant Kurt: shaken
Gerwen, Franz and Maria Julia van: Belgian rescuers; the attic hideout, Photo
Gestapo: and hostile neighbours, xvi; hunt for Jews; ‘fury’ of; execute non-Jews who help Jews; surround the Lvov ghetto; killings by; kill a Pole for helping Jews; torture a rescuer; Jews betrayed to; raids by; and a threatened betrayal; a rescuer arrested by; fear of arrest by; and a threat of blackmail; rescuers executed by; outwitted by a German countess; its chief allows fourteen Jews to leave Germany; active in Berlin; and a protest, in Berlin; in Innsbruck; a German hiding from; in Amsterdam; in Tarnow; in Cracow; in Lvov; in Prague; in Liptovsky St Mikulas; in Norway; in France; in Belgium; in Holland; in Italy; in Hungary; a rescuer’s confrontations with; learns of Italian refusal to support French anti-Jewish measures; the terror of, and rescue
Getter, Sister Matylda: rescues several hundred Jewish children
Geuzebroek-Zein, Klaasje: a Dutch rescuer
Giampereta (Italy): a safe haven in
Gies, Miep: a rescuer
Gietl (a rabbi’s daughter): saved; shot
Gilad-Goldman, Michael: recalls ‘a protector’
Gilleleje (Denmark): Jews hidden in, but discovered; the attic in, Photo
Gineste, Marie-Rose: transmits a protest
Ginsberg, Gizela: rescued
Ginz, Uta: recalls a Righteous Czech
Giorgetti, Ezio: hides thirty-eight Jews
Gitelman, David and Leah: hand over their baby girl
Gitelman, Getele: saved
Glagolyev, Aleksey: saves five Jews; Photo
Glasgow (Scotland): a Righteous award ceremony in
Glass House (Budapest): Swiss protection extended to; an Arrow Cross attack on; Photo
Glassman, Martin and Gary: the saga of their rescue
Glazer, Zwi (Zvi Gill): recalls a compassionate German guard
Glos Lubelski (‘Voice of Lublin’): and the latest news
Gluskin, Monica: given refuge
God: his commandment; ‘does not allow murder’ ‘will protect us’ His ‘call and full authority’ distinction between Jews and others ‘unfaithful’ to; work ‘in honour of’ a ‘sign of the love of’ and the ‘task’ of rescue
Godlewski, Marceli: saves Jews
‘God’s punishment’: for saving Jews
Goebbels, Dr Josef: indignant; gives in; protest against Italian ‘lax’ treatment of Jews
Goering, Reichsmarschal Hermann: a protest to
Goeth, Amon: challenges two Righteous Austrians; his sadism
Gold, Edgar: reflects on collaboration, xix Goldberg, Jeffrey: meets two rescuers (in 1986)
Goldberg, Nadja: her daughter’s rescue
Goldberg, Rachala (Rachel): saved
Goldman, Maria: in hiding, victim of an SS reprisal
Goldschläger, Alain: reflects on the Righteous in Belgium
Goldschläger, Christian (a Jewish boy): given refuge
Goldstein, Bernard: his hiding places and rescuers
Goldstein, Evy: a baby, in hiding
Goldstein family: saved by a German
Goldstein, Herta: survives, in Berlin
Goldstein, Jack: and a commemoration for his rescuer
Goldstein, Rita: her rescuers; with a group of Catholic girls, Photo
Goldstein, Slioma and Tamara: rescued
Golleschau (Sudetenland): a destination denied
Golliet, Jeanne and François: help Jews escape to Switzerland
Golliet, Pierre: witnesses an act of rescue
Golovchenko, Polina: saves Jews
Gomoiu, Dr Victor: appeals on behalf of Jews
Gonsette, Alphonse and Emilie: save a Jewish child
good: ‘rare…and fragile’
Good, Michael: seeks to honour a Righteous German
Good, Pearl (Perela Esterowicz): and ‘Jews hidden by Gentiles’ in Vilna; and a Righteous German
Good Samaritan, the: recalled
Good Shepherd organization (Budapest): rescue efforts of
Goodman, Lea: and a German overseer
goodness: ‘leaves us gasping’ the ‘fragility’ of
Goral family: shelter Jews
‘Gordon, Renée’: an assumed name
Gorlova, Mrs: hides Jews
Gospels, the: insisted upon as a guide
Gosselies (Belgium): an act of rescue in
Gotautas, Bronius: saves a Jewish doctor
Grabowska, Anna: hides a Jewish woman
Graebe, Fritz: a German rescuer, in Poland
Greece: round-ups in, xix; acts of rescue in
Greek Orthodox: save Jews, xvi
Grenoble (France): a Jew given shelter near; betrayed Jews taken through
Grigoriev, Pyotr: saves Jews
Grobelny, Julian: active in Council for Assistance to the Jews
Grodek Jagiellonski (Eastern Galicia): a Jewess in hiding in
Grodno (eastern Poland): Jews sent for safety to; Jews helped to make contact with
Grondowsky (a Jew): saved
Groningen (Holland): rescuers in
Gross Kiesow (Pomerania): an act of rescue in
Gross Rosen concentration camp (Silesia):; deportations to
Grossman, Haika: helped by a German
Grüber, Pastor Heinrich: his Righteous acts; arrested and imprisoned
Gruenberg, Miriam: rescued
Grunbaum, Irene: ‘your small country remained open, Albania’
Gruner, Peter: his brave stance
Grüninger, Captain Paul: helps Jews
Grunwald, Margherita: arrested, tortured, killed
Gruszka Zaporska (Poland): and a Righteous Pole
Grutsch, Adelheid: provides a ‘paradise’
Grutsch, Lambert: an Austrian rescuer
Grzybowski Place (Warsaw): and a Righteous priest
Gualtieri, General Carlo di: opposes French anti-Jewish measures
Gubbio (Italy): Jews given refuge in
Guelen, Andrée: a Belgian rescuer
Guicherd, Victor and Josephine: rescuers
Guillaume, Marthe: a rescuer
Gulbinovicz, Olga: ‘How could we possibly refuse them help…?’
Gumpel, Ruth: gives testimony about her rescuers
Gumz, Emma: a rescuer, in Berlin
Gunther, Rolf: deportation plans of, thwarted
Gurs concentration camp (Vichy France): and a Righteous German pastor; young survivors of, hidden and saved
Gusarov, Katia: narrates a story of rescue
Gustav VI Adolf (King of Sweden): protests against deportations
Guterman, Ben: helped by a German soldier
Gutgeld, Jacob, Shalom and David: given sanctuary
Gutin family: saved
Gutman, Yisrael: reflects on Polish rescuers in Warsaw
Guy, Marinette: smuggles Jewish children into Switzerland
Gylys, Father Jonas: tries to comfort Jews
Gypsies: and the rescue of a Jewish girl in Holland; and a gesture of sympathy in Hungary; a Jewish girl in hiding with, Photo
Gyula, Bishop Czapik: saves eight Jewish women
Haarlem (Holland): Righteous acts in
Hagstrom, Suzan: recounts a story of rescue and danger; and the murder of a ‘kind man’
Hague, The (Holland): rescuers from; Jews from, smuggled out of Holland; a brief respite in; a baby smuggled into
Haifa (Palestine Mandate): Wallenberg serves in
Haining, Jane: her crime, to weep
Halevy, Leah: in hiding in Assisi
‘Halina’: an assumed name
Halter, Roman: rescued, and the fate of one of his rescuers
‘Hambenne, Janine’: an assumed identity
Hamburg (Germany): a German officer from, helps Jews
Hammerstein, Marie Therese von: warns Jews, and helps Jews
Hammond, George: helps save a Jewish girl
Hansson, Per Albin: agrees to help Danish Jews
Hardaga, Mustafa: protects Jews
Harder, Albert (and his wife): hide three Jewish women
Harshav, Barbara: gives details of a rescuer
Hass, Eidikus: sent for safety
Hass, Izabela (‘Zula’): her survival and rescue
Hass, Rena: survives
Hasselt (Belgium): Jewish girls saved near
Hausner, Gideon: expresses appreciation for Norwegian rescue efforts
Haussman, Karl: hidden and saved
‘He who saves one life…’:
Heart of Jesus Convent (Skorzec, Poland): two Jewish girls given sanctuary in
Hebras, Pierre and Louise: shelter a Jewish family
Hebrew language: and gravestones; and a girl taken out of the Kovno Ghetto
Heemstede (Holland): a Jewish girl in hiding in
Heerlen (Holland): a Jewish girl given refuge in
Hegedus, Tibor: recalls acts of rescue, amid slaughter
Hegyeshalom (Hungary): a Death March to
Helfgott, Anita: given sanctuary; Photos
Helfgott, Ben: saved
Hellman, Arthur: found refuge; betrayed and executed
Hellman, Emelie and Heinrich: deported
Hellman, Peter: recounts the story of a French rescuer
Helman, Benjamin: given sanctuary
Helman, Gdula: hidden and saved
Helman, Gita: hidden and betrayed
Helmanowitsch, SS Private: and an act of kindness in Dachau
Helmrich, Donata: helps Jewish girls
Helmrich, Eberhard: a German rescuer; reflects on motivation
Helweg, Ole: helps Jews escape from Denmark
Henia (a Jewish girl): saved
‘Henry, Ginette’: an assumed identity
Herben, Jantje: found a safe haven
Herbst, Sabina and Ziunia: saved
Herches (a Polish Jew): in hiding
Herczog, Dora (Dora Herczog Levi): recalls her family’s rescue
Herczog family: in hiding in Italy
Herensztat, Greta: her rescuer
Héritier, Henri and Emma: shelter Jewish children
Herman, Marek: hidden by Italians
Hermina (a Jewish girl): her successful bribe
Hershkowitz, Martin: escapes execution
Herzog, Henry: his rescuers
Hesse, Kurt and Erica: befriended
‘Hexa No. 2’: an act of kindness by
‘Hidden Children’: gather, xvi; and Father Bruno
Hiller, Moses and Helen: entrust their two-year-old child to a Catholic couple
Hiller, Shachne: in hiding; Photo
Hilvarenbeek (Holland): an escape route through
Hilversum (Holland): a rescuer in
Himmler, Heinrich: orders an arrest; seeks deportation of Finland’s Jews; protests at Italian ‘resistance to the Final Solution’
Hirschel, Hans: hidden; marries his rescuer
Hirschi, Agnes: given shelter; reflects on Carl Lutz’s motivation
Hirshaut, Julien: recalls ‘a decent Gentile’
Hirszfeld, Professor Ludwig: saved
Hitler, Adolf: his ‘inferno’ his repression; his Jewish policies challenged, by a German pastor; outwitted by Bulgaria; and the Jews of Denmark; ‘support’ for victims of, in Belgium; ‘comfort’ in the news of the assassination of; rebuffed by Hungary’s Admiral Horthy
Hitler’s Chancellery (Berlin): a protest forwarded to
Ho, Dr Feng Shan: helps Jews leave Vienna
Hobart (Tasmania): a rescuer emigrates to
Hodbomont (Belgium): Jews in hiding in
Hoffnung, Martha: warned, and finds safety
Holland: a survivor from, xix; round-ups in, xix; and the German invasion; a German pastor helps Jews escape to; a German woman helps Jews escape to, and is executed; two Righteous Germans in; acts of rescue in; dislike of German occupation in; a hiding place in, discovered, Photos
Holland, Paul: gives refuge, with his mother
Holländer, Lisa: a Christian rescuer, in Berlin
Holländer, Paul: a Jew, killed
Holy Cross Society (Budapest): the head of, rescues Jews
Homar family: shelter Jews
Home Army (Armia Krajowa): helps Jews; harms Jews
Home for the Blind (Hodbomont, Belgium): Jews in hiding in
Home of Leffe (Belgium): shelters Jews
Hoones Forest (Holland): a hiding place in
Horobacki, Milica: teaches English
Horobacki, Wladyslaw: gives sanctuary
Horodyszcze Hill labour camp (Eastern Galicia):
Horowitz, Helena:
rescued
Horowitz, Isaac, Bala and Gabriel: given refuge
Horstmeyer, Rudolf and Felicia: protected by former pupils
Horthy, Admiral: twice rejects Hitler’s request; demands an end to deportations
Horvath, Kalman: his efforts to save Jews from deportation
Horvatinovic, Professor Branko: saved
Hoszcza (Poland): a Jewish family rescued in
Howil, Boguslaw: helps a Jewish friend
Hoxha, Nuro: hides Jews
Hryhorysztyn, Olena: ‘rich in spirit’
Hryniewicz, Sister Beata Bronislawa: helps two Jewish girls
Huellensen, Baroness von: a Jewish child hidden on her estate
Huffener family: rescuers, in Holland
Huguenots: descendants of, save Jews
humanist, a: also a rescuer
Hungarian diplomats: help Jews (in Rome):
Hungary: round-ups in, xix; Jews helped to escape to; a refugee from, in hiding in Italy; acts of rescue in
Huttenbach, Henry: writes about a Jewish couple in Worms, xix–xx
Hyrawka labour camp (Eastern Galicia): and a German rescuer
Ides family: Dutch rescuers
Ignalino (Vilna district): rescue in
Imam of Rhodes: saves Scroll of the Law
Independence Front (Belgium): appeals on behalf of Jews; helps Belgian Jews
Indig, Josef: a Jewish rescuer
industrialists (in Berlin): warn Jews
Infants’ House (Kaunas, Lithuania): Jewish children hidden in
Ingelscher, Paula: in hiding, Photo
Innsbruck (Austria): and the rescue of two Jewish women
Inquisition: rejected by the Dutch
Institut St Nicolas (Anderlecht, Belgium): two Jewish boys given sanctuary in
International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission: and Cardinal Stepinac
International Committee of the Red Cross: reunification work of; protests against Hungarian deportations; issues letters of protection in Budapest; helped by a Hungarian army officer; continued rescue efforts of, in Budapest
International Congress of Surgeons: a ‘legendary’ Righteous Pole at
‘International Ghetto’: in Budapest
International Society for Yad Vashem: the Chairman of, rescued with his family in Poland
‘Iovayshayte, Berute’: an assumed name
Ipp, Dr Tania: saved
Israel: survivors in; rescuers invited to; and Soviet Jews; a rescuer and his survivor wife move to; a German rescuer settles in; a Righteous Gentile award in
Israeli Parliament (Knesset): Dutch rescuers described in, as ‘the exceptional ones’