US group celebrates Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust

10 July 2016, 7:35 pm

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A group of Polish Christians who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust are brought together for a luncheon in Warsaw to be honored and celebrated by a US-based Jewish organization that provides aid to these rescuers.

One man is 101 years old; others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or leaning for support on children who are themselves no longer young.

Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, tells 35 rescuers that “you were the precious few who chose not to be bystanders.”

She adds: “Words are truly inadequate to express the gratitude of the Jewish people to each and every one of you.”