Australia: a rescuer emigrates to
Austria: Jews leave, I; acts of rescue in; a factory owner from, helps Jews in Poland; refugees from, find eventual sanctuary in France; refugees from, find sanctuary in Italy; a deportation on foot towards, from Budapest; deportations by train to, from Budapest
Auvergne (France): villagers in, shelter Jews
Avelin, Father: shelters Jews
Avenue of the Righteous (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem):
Avenue Louise (Brussels): a ‘miracle’ at
Avignon (France): a Jewish couple in hiding in
Avon (France): a rescuer in
Avondet family (Italy): give refuge to a Jewish family
Azzanello di Pasiano (Italy): rescue in
BBC, the: and the morale of those in hiding; and news of Allied military successes; and ‘news reports’ broadcasts a French bishop’s protest
Baarle-Nassau (Holland): an escape route through
Baarn (Holland): the search for a safe haven in
Babi Yar (Kiev): Jewish revolt at
Babich, Maria: saves a Jewish boy
Babilinska, Gertruda: saves a four-year-old boy; Photo
Babrungas (Lithuania): six Jews hidden in
Babylonian Talmud: cited, xxi
Badetti, Mother Superior Virginie: shelters Jews
Baer, Lore: recalls her years in hiding
Baja (Hungary): and the release of seven Jewish captives at
Bak, Samuel: in hiding
Baker, Mr (a German): his Righteous acts
Bakhman, Israel: hidden
Bal, Henri and Gabrielle: provide a safe haven; help Jews in hiding
Baldowska, Wanda: saves a Jewish girl
Balicka-Kozlowska, Helena: helps Jews
Balicki, Zygmunt and Jadwiga: help Jews
Balonowe Street (Lvov): betrayal in
Baltic States: guards from, xix; overrun by Germany
Balul, Antoni: saves four Jews
Balul, Wiktoria: helps save two Jews
baptism: and rescue
Baptists: save Jews, xvi
Baran, Jozef and Eleonora: rescuers
Baran, Julian: saves a Jewish couple
Baranowska, Jozefa: takes in a Jewish child
Baranszky, Tibor: helps Jews on a Death March
Barbie, Klaus: searches for Jewish children, for deportation
Barczenko (a Ukrainian guard): a ‘decent Gentile’
Bargen, Herr von: reports to Berlin on
Belgian rescuers
Baron Hirsch Camp (Salonika): and an act of rescue
Bartel, Professor: supports Jews
Bartolomae, Christian: recalls a Righteous fellow-German
Bartosik, Canon Wojciech: gives shelter
Bartoszewicz, Jan and Zofia: help a Jewish poet
Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw: records Righteous acts; a member of the Council for Assistance to the Jews (Zegota); recounts a story of rescue in Warsaw; Photo
Barudija-Horvatic, Bosilijka: saves a Jewish child
Barys, Kazimierz and Franciszek: shelter five Jews
Bascons (France): a rescuer in
Basevi, Giuliana and Emma de Angelis: given refuge
Bastia (Corsica): and an assumed identity
Bat Aharon, Lili: records the story of a rescuer
Batja and Ester (Jewish sisters): given refuge; ‘every step was with love’
Battel, First Lieutenant Albert: helps Jews
Batya (Pharaoh’s daughter): ‘daughter of God’, xvi
Baublis, Dr Petras: saves Jewish children
Bauer, Professor Yehuda: recounts a story of rescue; and a Jewish rescuer
Baum, Karola: and a Righteous German
Baumstick, Etka: recalls a decent guard
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands: speaks of the ‘exceptional ones’ (the rescuers)
Beccari, don Arrigo: an Italian rescuer
Beck, Aleksandra: helps her parents in an act of rescue
Beck, Valenti and Julia: save eighteen Jews
Beckerle, Adolf Heinz: critical of Bulgaria for saving Jews
Bedzin (Poland): a German rescuer in
Bedane, Albert: a British rescuer
Beelen, Jan and Wilhelmina: Dutch rescuers
Beelen, Rie and Grada: befriend a Jewish girl in hiding
Beerman, Marius (‘Bob’): a Dutch rescuer
Begell, William: recalls a German’s warning
Beimer family: hide a Jewish woman, in Holland
Beitler, Lorraine: recounts the rescue of Captain Dreyfus’s widow
Bejski, Moshe: saved, xv; recalls Schindler’s rescue efforts; and ‘last respects to the dead’, 227 and the ‘Golleschau Jews’
Belgian SS Division:
Belgium: round-ups in; and the German invasion; acts of rescue in; Dutch Jews smuggled through; dislike of German occupation in
Belgium Street (Prague): help for a Jewish orphanage on
Belkov, Kira and Dmitry: shelter two Jews
Bellaria (Italy): Jews hidden in
Bellegem, Sisters of (Belgium): give refuge
Belsen concentration camp: a survivor of; a mother liberated in; Kosovo Jews sent to; a Dutch rescuer dies in; a Jew in hiding, arrested and sent to
Belzec: a death camp; deportations to; a memorial at, and the murder of Poles ‘who tried to save Jews’ gassing at, witnessed
Belzer Rebbe (Aaron Rokeach): given protective documents in Budapest; the fate of his family
Ben (a seminarian): helps a Jew in hiding
Benedetti, Sister Emilia: shelters Jews
Benedictine Abbey (Liège, Belgium): shelters Jews
Benedictine Abbey (Nonantola, Italy): Jewish children hidden in
Benedictine Convent (Vilna): five Jews saved in
Benedictines: save Jews, xvi
Beneschek, Otto: an anti-Nazi
Bengel, Robert: provides false papers
Benoit, Father (Father Benedetti): saves many Jews
Berat (Albania): Jews taken to, for safety
Bereczky, Pastor Albert: helps Jews, in Budapest
Berger, Joseph: reports on the commemoration of a rescuer
Bergl, Zdenko: finds refuge in Italy
Bergman, Karol and Roza: saved, with Roza’s mother
Bergmann, Wilhelm: an act of kindness by
Berkowitz, Celina: saved; in a Polish orphanage, Photo
Berlin: a Righteous diplomat in; a Righteous aristocrat in; ‘very bad news’ reaches; a Jewish pharmacist from, hidden in Pomerania; a journey to, bringing help to Jews; a protest in; a deportation from; a Righteous pacifist in; a rescue scheme devised in; food parcels from, and a German’s generosity; a German’s mission of protest to; protests to, about Italian help for Jews; a protest to, about Swiss diplomats helping Jews in Budapest
Bernarda, Sister: gives refuge
Bernovits, Vilma: a rescuer, executed
Bertrand family (Belgium): shelters Jews
Besekow, Sam: rescued, with his parents
Besinne-Arbe (Belgium): a Jew hidden in
Bessarabia: Jews from, find refuge
Bialka (Poland): Poles executed in, for helping Jews
Bialkowski, Boleslaw and Zofia: hide Jews
Bialostocha, Walentyna: gives shelter; dies in a concentration camp
Bialowarczuk, Lucyna and Waclaw: save a Jewish child
Bialy, Kazimierz and Janina: hide Jews
Bialystok (Poland): an act of rescue in; further help in; Jews sent from, for safety; Council for Assistance to the Jews in; Jews helped to reach; Germans in, help Jews
Bible, the: and Jews in hiding; a teacher of, saves a Jew; and an escape from a Death March; and ‘the spirit and idea of man’
Biczyk, Jozef and Helena: shelter two Jewish girls; Photo
Biderman, Sara: saved
Bielany (near Warsaw): and a spurious baptism
Bielski brothers (Jewish partisans): Jews join
Bieser, Walter: in hiding
Biezanow (
Poland): and an act of rescue
‘Big Ghetto’ (also ‘Sealed Ghetto’): established in Budapest; five hundred children released from; Wallenberg helps avert massacre in; liberated; survivors in
Bijeljina (Yugoslavia): rescue in
Bilecki family (Lewko, Genko, Roman, Julian, Jaroslawa and Anna): help save Jews
Bilthoven (Holland): three rescuers in
Bingham, Hiram: helps Jews
Birger, Zev: recalls an act of kindness in a slave labour camp
Birkenau: see Auschwitz Birnbaum, Charlotte: she and her family given refuge
Birnbaum, Gertrud: hidden
Birnbaum, Lazar and Frida: hand over their baby for safety
Birnbaum, Marguerite-Rose: in hiding; with the son of her rescuers, Photo
Bischof, Franz (a Swiss citizen): hides Jews in Budapest; Photo
Bixhiu, Nadire: finds places of refuge for eighty Jews
Blau, Leslie: describes a gesture of sympathy in Hungary; describes an act of rescue in Hungary
Blessed Are the Meek (Zofia Kossak):
Bloch, Gerda and Doris: given sanctuary
‘Blokland, Dorothea’: an assumed identity
Bludenz (Austria): a Jew accompanied to
Blum, Gilbert: saved
Bobolice (Poland): rescue in
Bobowa (Poland): a young Jewish boy from, finds refuge
Bobrovski family: help Jews
Bochina (Poland): Council for Assistance to the Jews in; a Jewish family hidden near; a factory in, gives shelter to Jews
Bodart family (Belgium): shelters Jews
Boden, Arnold: helps a Jewish girl
Bodson, Victor: his acts of rescue
Boegner, Pastor Marc: issues clear instructions for rescue
Bogaard, Johannes: a rescuer; with two Jewish girls, Photo
Bogaard, Willem: saves twenty children; with two Jewish girls, Photo
Bogarde, Dirk: plays a Righteous British sergeant
Bogomolnaya, Rivka Lozanska: in hiding
Boguty Milczi (Poland): Jews hidden in
Bohemia (Czechoslovakia): three Jews given shelter in
Bohemian Brothers: a preacher in the church of
Bohic, Pauline: a rescuer
Bohny, August: shelters Jews
Bohr, Niels: saved; his biographer, rescued in Holland
Boinski (a farmer): helps Jews
Bole (a German): his Jewish wife helped; in an anti-Nazi cell
Bolzano (Italy): a deportation from
Bonhomme, Juliette: hides a Jewish mother and her three sons
Bonyhad (Hungary): a gesture of sympathy in; help during a Death March through
Boom (Belgium): rescuers in
‘Borek’: an assumed surname
Boris, King (of Bulgaria): church men protest to; the effect of public protests on
Borki (Poland): a Polish priest helps a survivor of revolt at
Bormann, Martin: ordered to make an arrest
Born, Friedrich (a Swiss citizen): his rescue efforts in Budapest; Photo
Bornstein, Hassia: helped by a German
Borowczyk (a shoemaker): helps a Jew
‘Borowska’: a name in hiding
Boryslaw (Eastern Galicia): rescuers and rescued in
Borzykowski, Chana and Benjamin: deported
Borzykowski, Jacky: in hiding; with his parents before going into hiding, Photo
Borzykowski, Tuvia: and some of the ‘finest personalities of the Polish people’ given shelter
Bosko, Oswald: a Viennese, helps Jews in Cracow; executed
Bosnia: Jews saved in, xvi
Bouge (Belgium): Jewish families in hiding in
Boyarskyi, Brother: helps a Jew
Braham, Randolph: reflects on Hungarian rescue efforts
Braine-l’Alleud (Belgium): a Jewish girl in hiding in
Brann, Henry Walter: recalls a ‘valiant churchman’
Branquino, Carlos de Liz-Texeira: his rescue efforts in Budapest
Bratislava (Slovakia): Righteous acts in
Braun, Felicia: given sanctuary
Brauns, Jack: recounts an act of kindness in Dachau
Brauns, Dr Moses: and an act of kindness in Dachau
Bredoux, Sister Marie-Gonzague: provides Sabbath candles
Breendonk (Belgium): an execution at
Brejna family: rescuers
Brenner, Aron: saved
Brenner, Mosze and Rozalia: saved
Breslau (Germany): a refugee from, found sanctuary in Italy
Brest-Litovsk (eastern Poland): rescue in; Council for Assistance to the Jews in
Brichta, Frantisek (Frank Bright): recalls a Righteous act
Briedys, Janis: rescues Jews
Briër, Frans and Maria: Dutch rescuers
Brik, Aaron (Aharon Barak): saved
Brillenburg-Wurth, Dr: a Dutch rescuer
Britain: takes in Jewish refugees; ‘Visas for Life’ exhibition in; Jews reach, after the war; a Dutch rescuer emigrates to; issues Palestine certificates for Jews in Budapest; ten soldier-rescuers from
British Army: liberates
Brittany (France): a place of refuge in
Brive (France): Jews smuggled from
Brno (Czechoslovakia): Oskar Schindler’s mission of mercy to
Brody (Eastern Galicia): rescue in, 35, 58-59 Italian soldiers in, help Jews
Bron family: and a Jew seeking sanctuary
Bronchart, Léon: refuses to drive deportation train
Bronna Gora (eastern Poland): massacre at
Brousse, Madame (Jeannette Maurier): helps Jews escape to Switzerland; reflects on her motivation
Bruess, Johannes: a German rescuer
Bruges (Belgium): Jews in hiding in
Bruining, Dr Nicolette (‘Tante Co’): a Dutch rescuer
Bruinvelds, Ezechiel and Anna: murdered at Sobibor
Brunnlitz (Sudetenland): Oskar Schindler’s factory in
Bruno (a Byelorussian): ‘not one of the nicer people’
Brussels (Belgium): refugees from, find sanctuary in France; help to Jews in; a rescuer in, honoured after liberation; Dutch Jews smuggled through
Brygier, Lucy: in hiding, Photo
Brygier, Sarah: in hiding, Photo
Brzezany (Eastern Galicia): Jews from, find a safe haven
Brzuchowice (Eastern Galicia): and a Jewish boy in hiding
Bucharest (Romania): a protest to
Buchenwald concentration camp: the husband of a Righteous German dies in; Jews deported to; a Dutch rescuer imprisoned in
Buchter, Marie: hides Jews, in Holland
Buchter, Tina (Dr Tina Strobos): hides Jews, in Holland; with one of those in hiding, Photo
Budapest (Hungary): a boy and his parents in hiding in; Eichmann and his SS Commando reach; Eichmann turns his attention to; acts of rescue in; a ‘gentile woman’ from, helps Jewish fellow prisoners in Auschwitz; motivation of a rescuer in
Budishevskaya, Floriya: saves a Jewish boy
Budnowska, Sister Tekla: hides Jewish girls
Budrikene, Lusia: a rescuer
Budzanow (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish family saved in
Bug River: flight towards, after betrayal; a Pole helps Jewish escapees at
Buggenhout, Clementine and Edouard Frans: Belgian rescuers
Buggenhout (Belgium): a Jewish child in hiding in
Bukovina: Jews from, find refuge; Jews of, find a champion
Bukovinsky (a priest): encourages an act of rescue
Bulgaria: Jews of, saved from deportation
Bulgarian Orthodox Churh: takes a lead
Buna-Monowitz (East Upper Silesia): a courageous British sergeant at
Bund, the (Jewish Social Democratic Workers Party): and ‘Aryan’ Warsaw; a leader of, in hiding
Bunel, Lucien-Louis (Père Jacques of Jesus): see Père Jacques
Burdzynski (a Pole): helps Jews
Burlingis, Pawel and Wiktoria: save a Jewish baby girl
Burzec (Po
land): betrayal at
Busold, Stanislawa: saves a new-born Jewish child
Busse, Otto: helps Jews, 211-12 reflects on his ‘Christian conscience’
Bussum (Holland): two Jewish couples given refuge in
Butrin, Adam: hides Jews
Buzhminsky, Yosef: witnesses the execution of rescuers
Byelorussia: acts of rescue in
Byelorussians: help Jews; help Germans
Cabaj, Jan: saves a Jewish girl
Cabaj, Stanislawa: shelters two Jewish girls
California (USA): a Righteous German settles in
Calmeyer, Hans-Georg: helps Jews
‘Calmeyer’s List’: Jews on, saved from deportation
Calvinists: save Jews
‘Camp of the Ants’: Jewish children find refuge at
Canada: ‘Visas for Life’ exhibition in; survivors in
Canadian soldiers: liberators
Canale d’Alba (Italy): Jews in hiding in
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm: helps Jews leave Germany
Capuchin Banneux Homes (Belgium): shelter Jews
Capuchin Convent (Rome): help for Jews in
Carcassonne (France): a rescuer in
Carl Fredriksen Transport Organization: helps Jews escape
Carmelites: and the rescue of Jews
Carpathian Mountains: a worker from, helps a Jew
Cassulo, Archbishop Andrea: appeals, in vain
Castle Hill (Budapest): and a Righteous pastor
Castle, John: his book about a Righteous British soldier
Catholic Front for the Reborn Poland: its head, leads rescue efforts
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (USA): and a wartime papal injunction
Catholic University of Lublin: a Polish rescuer at
Cavilio, Josef: sheltered, with his family
Celiny (Poland): a rescuer in
Centnerszwer, Professor Mieczyslaw: sheltered, denounced, executed
Ceresole d’Alba (Italy): a safe haven
Chameides, Leon: in hiding; seeks recognition for a rescuer
Chameides, Zwi (later Zwi Barnea): in hiding
Chamonix (France): Jewish children saved in
Champagnat Institute of the Order of St Mary (Budapest): rescue efforts by
Champagne, Carlos and Celeste: provide refuge
Channel Islands: an act of rescue in
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