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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Mohamed Helmy

On their 1969 visit to Berlin, a teenage Carla Greenspan is shown with her mother, Anna Gutman, and their hosts, Mohamed and Emmi Helmy (Courtesy Carla Greenspan/JTA)
October 25, 2017, 9:14 pm
Arab to finally receive Israeli honor as Holocaust hero
Egyptian doctor Mohamed Helmy will be awarded medal posthumously in Berlin, for hiding a Jewish women during World War II
By Jonah Mandel
At their Berlin home in 1980, Mohamad and Emmi Helmy flank Anna Gutman; Carla Greenspan and her husband, Barry, appear behind them. (photo credit: Courtesy Carla Greenspan/JTA)
November 7, 2013, 6:17 am
The quest continues to honor Arab hero doctor
Although his Egyptian relatives spurned Yad Vashem’s Righteous Gentile award, descendants of those saved by Dr. Mohamad Helmy still hope for an official ceremony
By Hillel Kuttler
Dr. Mohamed Helmy's certificate, on display at Yad Vashem. (photo credit: courtesy)
October 20, 2013, 11:38 am
Family of first Arab to get Yad Vashem recognition rejects award
Egyptian doctor Mohamed Helmy was to receive Righteous Among the Nations honor, but relative says family doesn’t want anything from Israel
By Kirsten Grieshaber and MARIAM RIZK
Illustrative: Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)
September 30, 2013, 1:06 pm
First Egyptian Righteous Among the Nations honored
An Egyptian physician, working with a local woman in the heart of Nazi Germany, saved a Jewish family and escaped mortal danger
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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