The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

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by Gilbert, Martin


  Palestine (British Mandate): a pre-war visit to; a post-war visit to; those rescued make their way to; those on way to, smuggled into Italy; certificates for, sent to Vittel; pioneers training for, smuggled out of Holland; pioneer training for, in Italy; a list of approved immigrants to

  Palmnicken (Baltic Sea): massacre and rescue at

  Palomba, Umberto: helps a Jewish refugee family in Italy

  Panazol (France): a safe haven in

  Paniowce Zielone (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish boy in hiding in

  Pan-Jun-Shun: a rescuer

  Pap family: give sanctuary, in Holland

  Papal Nuncio (Zagreb): intervenes

  Papo, Mira: given refuge

  Papo, Salomon: deported from hospital

  Parankova (Lithuania): ‘noble souls’ in

  Paris (France): deportations to Auschwitz from; Jewish children hidden near; a Jewish child hidden in; a round-up in; an arrest in; a rescuer in; a train ticket from

  Parysow (Poland): three Jewish sisters from, given sanctuary

  Paskeviciene, Jolanta: tells the story of Lithuanian rescuers

  Passover: and the Righteous, xv; and Jews in hiding; and a precious manuscript

  The Password Is Courage (film): and a Righteous British soldier

  Pataky, Dr Arnold: provides sanctuary for Jews

  Patoux, Juliette and Gaston: save a Jewish girl

  Patras (Greece): Jews of, saved

  Paukstis, Father Bronius: saves Jews

  ‘Pauline’: a less Jewish name

  Pauvlavicius, Jan: rescues Jews; murdered for saving Jews

  Pavel and Katia (a Jewish couple): given shelter

  ‘Pavlovnia, Kristian’: an assumed name

  Pawiak Prison (Warsaw): a rescuer incarcerated in; a ‘decent Gentile’ in

  Pawlicka, Janina: gives sanctuary

  Payot, Abbé André: helps Jews

  Pecs (Hungary): a deportation from

  Peiper, Hanka: in hiding

  Peleg, David: given sanctuary, in Budapest

  Peltew River (Lvov): and a sewer hiding place

  Penraat, Jaap: smuggles Jews out of Holland

  Pentecostal movement: helps Jews in Norway

  People’s Army (Armia Ludowa): helps Jews

  Père Jacques: a rescuer

  Peres, Shimon: his father the colleague of a British rescuer

  Peresika (eastern Poland): Jews helped in

  Perlasca, Giorgio (Jorge): in charge of Spanish safe houses in Budapest; issues protective documents; obtains release of threatened Jews; remains in Budapest; Photo

  Perski, Yitzhak: works with a Righteous British sergeant

  Perugia (Italy): arrested Jews taken to, rescue in

  Pesaro (Italy): liberation in

  Peshev, Dimiter: opposes deportations from Bulgaria

  Pessah, Rabbi: obtains shelter for 752 Jews

  Pétain, Marshal: collaborates; a protest to; religious feelings of, ‘irreconcilable’ with deportation; a supporter of, becomes a rescuer

  Peterfy, Ida: her acts of rescue

  Petrenko, Natalya and Antonina: hide two Jewish escapees

  Petrowski, Vasilien: saves eighteen Jews

  Petrykiewicz, Maria and Wanda: Austrian rescuers

  Pfannschmidt, Joachim: hides a Jewish woman

  Pharaoh: his daughter’s courage, xv–xvi

  Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): a ‘legendary’ Righteous Pole visits

  Piatigorsk (Russia): two Jews hidden in

  Picot family: save two Jewish girls

  Pieris (Italy): Jews find refuge in

  Pietromarchi, Count: reports ‘brutal measures’ of Germans and Italian ‘safeguard’

  Pietrusiewicz, Mr: a rescuer

  Piglowska, Sister Blanka: helps hide a Jewish girl

  Piguet, Anne-Marie Imhof: helps Jewish children escape to Switzerland

  Piguet, Bishop Gabriel: approves rescue

  Pilica (Poland): a rescuer and her child executed in

  Pinczewska, Alicja: saved; at her First Communion, Photo

  Pionki concentration camp (German-occupied Poland): escapees from, given shelter; ‘friendly’ Germans in

  Piotrkow (Poland): acts of rescue in

  Pitter, Premysl: helps Jews

  Pius XII, Pope: Germans protest at Christmas message of

  Piwnicza (southern Poland): Jews helped to escape through

  Place du Chatelain (Brussels): a final act of rescue in

  Placzek family: save Jews

  Plagge, Major Karl: a German rescuer; reflects on his motivation

  Plaszow concentration camp (German-occupied Poland):; a factory in, under benign control; sadism at; a second factory in, under benign control; evacuation from; a Polish ‘benefactor’ in

  Platteau, Léon: helps Jews

  Pleyber-Christ (France): a Jewish girl finds refuge in

  Plomnik family: their daughter in hiding

  Plovdiv (Bulgaria): and a churchman’s protest

  Pludy (near Warsaw): Jewish children hidden at

  Pochet, Maurice and Maria: hide a Jew

  Podgorska, Stefania: a teenage rescuer

  Podhajce (Eastern Galicia): Jews from, rescued

  Podoszyn, Jozef and Anna: hidden

  Pogany, Gyorgy: in hiding in Italy

  Pohlmann, Lili: taken to safety; saved, by a German rescuer

  Poitiers (France): rescue in

  Pokrovsky Church (Kiev): Dean of, saves Jews

  Polak, Coenraad: given refuge

  Polak, Freddie: given sanctuary with his three children

  Polak, Dr Henri: in hiding

  Polak, Mrs: helped by a German

  Poland: penalties in, xvi; German invasion of; Jews trapped in; and rescue in Eastern Galicia; and rescue in Vilna; and rescue in the German-administered General-Government; and rescue in Warsaw; Jewish children from, find refuge in Italy; Jews from, reach Hungary

  Polish Council for Assistance to the Jews: see Zegota Polish Government-in-Exile (London): a rescuer heads its Jewish Affairs section in Poland; warns against extortionists

  Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa): and the Jews; and two rescuers; a member of, saves Jews; helps Jews; harms Jews

  Polish People’s Army (Armia Ludowa): and the Jews; helps Jews

  Polish Transport Workers Union: a leader of, in hiding

  Pollak family: hidden

  Poltava (Ukraine): an act of rescue in

  Pomerania (Germany): deportations from

  Ponar (near Vilna): a rescuer murdered at; an escapee from, given refuge; frequent deportations to; and a German sergeant’s desire to help Jews

  Poniatowa concentration camp (German-occupied Poland): a deportation to

  Pontius Pilate: modern versions of; ‘We do not wish to be’

  Poor Clares (Nice, France): take in a Jewish child

  Poor Clares (San Quirico, Italy): a Gestapo raid on, fails in its purpose

  Popovici, Dr Traian: intercedes on behalf of Jews

  Portuguese Legation (Budapest): rescue efforts of, in Budapest

  postage stamps: celebrate the Righteous

  ‘Potato Stealing’: and a decent German soldier

  Potrzebowski, Jan: ‘he saved our lives’

  Praga (Warsaw): Jews forced to leave; a Jewish family in hiding at

  Prague (Czechoslovakia): Jews taken for safety to; Jews helped in; Jewish children from, in Norway

  Preisz, Susan: saved

  Presser, Jacob: writes about a Righteous German in Holland

  Preston, David Lee: seeks recognition for his mother’s rescuer

  Pristina (Kosovo): Jews in, rescued

  Prital, David: saved

  Prittet, Geneviève: helps Jews escape to Switzerland

  Profondeville (Belgium): an arrest in

  Prokop family: hide Jews

  ‘Promised Land for the Jews’ (Côte d’Azur under Italian rule): German anger at

  ‘protected’ houses: in Budapest

  ‘Protes
t!’: on behalf of the Jews

  Protestant Church (Berlin): its Dean’s defiance

  Protestants: help Jews

  Pruszkow (near Warsaw): a rescuer in

  Prva, Frantiska: saves two Jewish girls

  Przemysl (Western Galicia): acts of rescue in; an escapee from

  Przemyslyany (Eastern Galicia): a Jew finds a hiding place in

  Przybysz, Mr: denounced and shot

  Psalms, the: and Jews in hiding

  Pshenitse, Yehudis (Judith): the saga of her rescue

  Puah (a midwife): defies Pharaoh, xv

  Pugliano Vecchio (Italy): a hiding place in

  Puntrzela (a Polish Catholic): ‘good-hearted’

  Puznow (Poland): sanctuary in; Photo

  Pyrenees: escape across

  Quakers: and rescue

  Quintin, Alphonse and Marie: rescuers

  Quisling, Vidkun: heads ‘quisling’ government; a protest to

  Rachela (a Jewish doctor): and her niece in hiding

  Racz, Vilmos: hides sixteen Jews

  Radecznica (Poland): Jews from, hidden

  Radom (Poland): a courageous act in; the Council for Assistance to the Jews in; two Jewish girls from, rescued; and a Righteous German

  Radun (Poland): a message taken to; a survivor of

  Radziejowski, Rysiek: sheltered, caught, and executed

  Radzilow (Poland): a Jew from, saved

  Ragauskis, Antanas and Ona: save a Jewish girl

  Raile, Father Jakab: saves Jews in Budapest

  Raimondo family: protect a Jewish family in Italy

  Raj (Eastern Galicia): Jews in hiding in

  Rajski, Wincenty and Stefania: hide two Jews

  Rakevicius family: saves thirty-five Jews

  Rangsdorf (Berlin): a Jew in hiding at

  Raskow, Herman and Fanny: helped to escape

  Raskow, Josef: helped to escape

  Raszbaum, Teofila: hidden

  Ravensbrück concentration camp (north of Berlin): rescuers die in; a Righteous German sent to; a Righteous Belgian dies in; Righteous Dutch women imprisoned in; a ‘brave lady’ dies in; deportations to, from Budapest; a nun’s rescue efforts in; Swedish Red Cross negotiate a prisoner release from; buses on their way from, Photo

  Ravet family: rescuers

  Rawa Russka (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish girl in hiding near

  Red Army: liberation by; and Stalingrad; approaches Budapest

  Red Cross insignia: a protective device in Budapest; see also International Committee of the Red Cross

  Redlich family: in hiding

  Redlich, Shimon: saved

  Reed, Walter H. (Werner Rindsberg): recalls acts of rescue

  Regensburg (Germany): two Jewish sisters reach

  Reibscheid-Feliks, Roza: given shelter

  Reich Security Main Office (Berlin): a protest to; distressed by attitude of Vatican; learns of Italian sabotage of anti-Jewish measures

  Reingold, Uriel: reflects on the Righteous

  Reiter, Sister Johanna: saves a four-year-old Jewish girl

  Rembertow (Poland): a Jewish girl rescued from; a Jewish girl helped in

  Rembiszewska, Mira: saved

  Remond, Archbishop Paul: helps hide Jewish children

  ‘Renie’: an assumed identity

  Reviczky, Colonel Imre: ‘one of the most praiseworthy’

  Rewkowska, Joanna: a small girl, at risk

  Rewkowska, Maria and Zygmunt: risk their lives to save a Jew

  Reynders, Reverend Henri (Père Bruno): see Father Bruno

  Reynders, Dr Michel: recalls his uncle’s career and acts of rescue; his own efforts; reflects on ‘one of the prime Christian obligations’

  Reznik, Josef: helped by a Polish priest

  Rhineland (Germany): deportations from, to Vichy France

  Rhode St Genese (Belgium): rescue in

  Rhodes (Italian Dodecanese island): two rescuers on

  Rhule (France): a Jewish girl in hiding at

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von: informed about Belgian rescuers; receives protest about Italian ‘resistance to the Final Solution’ protests at ‘pro-Jewish zeal’ of Italian officials in France; a further protest by, against the Italians

  Richardson, Mary (née Olvenich): given refuge

  Richter, Glenn: befriends a survivor

  Rieck, Walter: a rescuer, in Berlin

  Rieger, Katerina: her ‘courageous’ act

  Riga (Latvia): Jews rescued in

  Righteous Among the Nations: designated, xv–xvi; a ceremony for, in London; a ceremony for, in Warsaw; a ceremony for, in Budapest; financial help for; a Dutch village designated as

  Righteous Among the Nations Award: and ‘a real and dear Righteous Gentile’ and an elderly rescuer

  Righteous Among the Nations (Lexicon):

  Righteous Gentiles: and ‘a story that touches the heart’ and a Ukrainian Catholic priest; and a place of honour and gratitude; in Germany; ‘in my life there have not been any’

  Rimbocchi (Italy): a tragedy in

  Ringelblum, Emanuel: records acts of betrayal; records Righteous acts; his diary

  Rinkevicius, Elia: and her husband’s rescue activities; ‘generous, kind-hearted’ shares food

  Rinkevicius, Vitalija: receives an honour on behalf of her parents

  Rinkevicius, Vytautas: the ‘heart and soul’ of a rescue scheme

  Rischel (a German): helps Jews

  Ristic, Risto: his Righteous acts; his motivation

  Rivesaltes internment camp (Vichy France):

  Roanne (France): an escape from

  Roermond (Holland): a German Jewish teenager finds refuge in

  Roger, Marie-Elise: ‘I did nothing unusual…’

  Roman Catholics: save Jews, specific examples of xvi

  Roman (Romania): an act of rescue at

  Romanet (France): a Jewish family sheltered in

  Romania: acts of rescue in; parts of, annexed by Hungary

  Romanian diplomats: help Jews (in Rome)

  Rome (Italy): a leading Nazi protests to; German occupation of; German plans to deport Jews of; rescue efforts in

  Romka (a Jewish girl): in hiding

  Ronai, Avraham: and an act of rescue in Budapest

  Roosevelt, President Franklin D.: a letter to

  Rosay, Abbé Jean: helps Jews escape

  Rose, Leesha: works with Dutch rescuers

  Rosen, Donia: hidden; plays tribute to a British sergeant’s ‘selfless actions’

  Rosen, Sara: and a ‘saviour turned into traitor’

  Rosenbusz, Dr Maximilian: one of the first victims at Auschwitz

  Rosenbusz, Zofia: finds sanctuary

  Rosenstrasse Detention Centre (Berlin): a protest in

  Rosenzweig, Zygmunt (‘Uncle Yasha’): in hiding

  Roslan, Alex and Mela: hide three Jewish children

  Rosner, Rose: rescued from a Death March

  Rosochacz (Eastern Galicia): Jews saved in

  Rossen, Selma: recalls rescue

  Rossner, Alfred: a Righteous German, in Poland; executed

  Rotbel, Edward: deported, as a Hungarian Jew

  Rotem, Simcha: given shelter

  Rotenberg, Alexander: saved, xx

  Röthke, SS Lieutenant Heinz: reports that Italian troops have ‘used force’ to free Jews; reports that Italian police in France ‘protect the Jews by every means…’

  Rotman, Anna and Iza: in hiding

  Rotmil, Bernard: recalls his rescuer

  Rotta, Angelo (Vatican representative in Budapest): his rescue efforts; remains in Budapest; Photo

  Rotter, Sy: his documentary film about survivors and rescuers

  Rotterdam (Holland): and acts of rescue

  Roussey, Yves: helps Jews, later arrested and shot

  Rovno (eastern Poland): a Righteous German in

  Rozenberg, Janusz and Jadwiga: saved

  Rozenberg (a Jew in hiding): given shelter; killed

  Rozencwajg, Aleksander: k
illed at Katyn

  Rozencwajg, Roma and Gabriel: in hiding

  Rozensztajn, Bela: finds her daughter

  Rozensztajn, Marysia: rescued

  Rozsa, Sandor: hides Jewish slave labourers

  Rozycka, Maryla: and a German rescuer

  Rubin, Amos: recalls his rescuers

  Rubinstein, Cesia: and a Righteous German

  Rudawska, Katarzyna: hides a young Jewish girl

  Rudelli, Vincenzo and Candida: give refuge to several Jewish families

  Ruiter, Dr: his act of rescue

  Rum (Austria): and a place of safety

  Rumst (Belgium): two Jewish girls find refuge in

  Rungsted (Denmark): Jews helped to Sweden from

  Russian Orthodox: save Jews, xvi; their Baptist neighbours

  Russian partisans: kill Jews, xx

  Ruth (a Jewish Berliner): and an act of rescue

  Rysiewicz, Adam: hides twelve people

  Rzeszow (Poland): a Jew from, rescued

  SS: shoot a Jewish girl in hiding; protest at help given to Jews; search for children; active in Warsaw; in Cracow; in Przemysl; in Berlin; in Vilna; in Bialystok; in Bedzin; in Zdolbunow; in Rovno; in Plaszow; and ‘Schindler’s List’ Oskar Schindler takes ‘Property of’ at Brunnlitz; in Albania; demand Finland’s Jews; seek Denmark’s Jews; in France; in Belgium; in Holland; in Italy; in Greece; in Hungary; leave Budapest; return to Budapest; and an act of rescue; Jews handed over to; and an undercover agent; and a massacre averted; and ‘a very good sort’ in Janowska concentration camp; and an act of kindness, in a slave labour camp; and an act of kindness, in Dachau; a member of, takes ‘a great risk’ a member of, and a rescue stratagem; seek escaped Jews; the power of, and rescue

  Sabbath candles: provided for girls in hiding

  Sabbath, the: and Jews in hiding

  Sabina, Miss: executed for talking to a Jew

  Sachsen hausen concentration camp (north of Berlin): a German pastor sent to; a Norwegian rescuer sent to; a French rescuer sent to

  Sack, Josef: in hiding with his wife and daughter

  Sadik, Ahmed: Muslim, shelters Jews

  Safonov family: save Jews; the parents shot

  Safonov, Nadezhda: helps Jews survive

  Safonov, Vasilyi: helps Jews survive

  St Anna’s Church (Lvov): and an act of rescue

  Saint Anthony: (patron saint of fugitives)

  St Anthony’s College (Oxford): a Polish rescuer visits

 

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