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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

Polish people who saved Jews during World War II sit with family members and others during an event to honor them, in Warsaw, Poland, September 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 8, 2019, 9:16 pm
As their numbers shrink, Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust honored
‘When most turned their backs on their Jewish neighbors, you did not,’ executive VP Jewish Foundation for the Righteous tells aging rescuers in Warsaw
By Vanessa Gera
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 6, 2017, 9:36 pm
Poles honored for ‘true heroism’ for rescuing Jews during Holocaust
At event lauding Polish rescuers, Israel’s deputy ambassador calls honorees ‘a beacon of hope in our society’
By JTA
American prisoners captured in Ardennes in December 1944. (Wikimedia commons/Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J28589 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)
November 30, 2016, 3:21 pm
Posthumous honor for US officer who saved 200 Jewish GIs from the Nazis — and never told a soul
With a Nazi pistol pointed at his head, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds refused to reveal which of his soldiers were Jews. This week he was recognized for his bravery
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
July 10, 2016, 11:43 pm
US group celebrates Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous honors, helps ‘the precious few who chose not to be bystanders’
By Vanessa Gera
Rescuer Janusz Durko, 100 years old, speaks at an event gathering nearly 50 elderly Christian Poles who saved Jews during World War II, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
July 12, 2015, 11:54 pm
Christian Polish ‘heroes’ honored for rescuing Jews during Shoah
In poignant ceremony, 50 aging ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ thanked for risking lives during World War II
By Vanessa Gera
Illustrative: Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)
July 17, 2014, 12:00 pm
Warsaw celebrates 50 righteous among nations
‘We had to save them, it was just a reflex,’ says one honoree
By JTA
Allianz executive Peter Lefkin. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
October 29, 2013, 10:27 am
Honoring Allianz exec is a ‘blot,’ say survivors
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous decision angers survivors groups who feel insurance company hasn’t paid enough
By JTA
Shoshana Golan, left, a Holocaust survivor who changed her name from Rozia Beiman, reunites in New York with Wladyslawa Dudziak, a Pole who passed her off as a family member during the Holocaust. (Chavie Lieber/JTA)
December 2, 2012, 10:59 pm
Nearly 70 years on, Holocaust survivor reunites with ‘Righteous’ rescuer
At 85, Polish woman takes her first flight to meet the Jewish ‘cousin’ her parents hid from the Nazis
By Chavie Lieber
Martyna Majewska, center, guides a tour in Warsaw that shows former Jewish sites. (Marcin Kozlinski via JTA)
November 3, 2012, 1:44 pm
Polish gentiles increasingly embrace Jewish culture as part of their own heritage
Growing efforts to preserve and resurrect Poland’s Jewish past reflect changing attitudes to country’s anti-Semitic history
By Katarzyna Markusz
Dozens of elderly Poles who helped save Jews during World War II were celebrated and praised for their heroism at a lunch in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday July 15 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 16, 2012, 7:42 am
Jewish group honors Polish WWII rescuers as numbers start to dwindle
‘We did what we had to do,’ says one woman, ‘there was nothing heroic about it’
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