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Mary Elms, who died in 2002, helped a large number of Jewish children escape the Rivesaltes detention camp in France in August-September of 1942, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial authority in Israel. Elms was in Perpignan, France, as a
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Poland (AP) Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her. Sendler was a social worker who smuggled Jewish
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Elzbieta Stradowska, the great-niece of the Szostak's, flew to Israel from Ludz, Poland to accept the award on the couple's behalf at the unveiling in the museum's Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations. Here you have a young girl who survived the
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A forgotten history 18 April 2013 Last updated at 23:56 ET Poland is marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Friday, one of the most remarkable acts of resistance in the Second World War. This was a period when the almost 1,000-
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Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: just a half-dozen buildings, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up by the Germans in their onslaught against the Jews who took up arms against them. Now this Holocaust-era
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Our Righteous We've all heard about Righteous Among the Nations, but not many are familiar with stories of Jews who risked their lives to save fellow Jews. Twenty-eight of them commemorated in unique ceremony Kobi Nachshoni We have all heard about
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Righteous Gentile Cardinal Elia Angelo Dalla Costa, the World War IIera Archbishop of Florence, has been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. In an announcement issued Nov. 26, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem said Dalla Costa was recognized as a
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The documents will be scanned by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust commemoration authority, in the next two years, Yad Vashem deputy spokesperson Yifat Bachrach-Ron told JTA. Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and Caspar Veldkamp, the Dutch ambassador to
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After us, no one will tell our story, maybe someone will read Posted Michal Zajda Follow JewishJournal.com on Mikolaj Grynberg, Saved from the XX century. After us, no one will tell our story, maybe someone will read it, Warsaw 2012, p. The crime
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Poland (AP) — For decades, nobody really talked about them: the thousands of Poles, mostly Roman Catholics, who risked their lives during World War II to save Jewish friends, neighbors and even strangers. Those discovered by the
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