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The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

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by Gilbert, Martin


  Italiaander, Cirla (Cirla Lewis): in hiding

  Italiaander, Jaap: deported and killed

  ‘Italian Wallenberg’ (Giorgio Perlasca): honoured

  Italian Zone (south-eastern France): Jews smuggled to; Goebbels protests at ‘lax’ Italian treatment of Jews in; further German protests concerning

  Italy: round-ups in, xix; invades Albania; a Papal Nuncio from, saves Jews; acts of rescue in

  Izbica Lubelska (Poland): a Jewish family from, helped

  Izieu (France): Jewish children taken from, by the SS

  Jachowicz, Josef and his wife: hide a Jewish child; Photo

  Jachowicz, Ryszard: recognized as Righteous, with his mother and fiancée

  Jacobs, Helen: a rescuer

  Jacobson, Philip: reports on a ‘turning point’

  Jacqumotte, Réne: rescues twenty Jewish children

  Jadwiga, Sister: hides a Jewish girl

  Jaeger, Maximilian: supports his colleagues’ rescue efforts

  Jaffa, Sharon: writes about a Jewish boy in hiding

  Jakubowicz, Jakow: saved

  Jamin, Father: shelters Jews

  Jaminet, Father: shelters Jews

  Jamoigne (Belgium): Jewish children given refuge in

  Janina (Greece): ‘The Christian people…powerless’

  ‘Janina S.’: a rescuer

  Janossy, Father Jozsef: rescues Jews in Budapest

  Janowska concentration camp (Lvov):; a ‘very good sort’ in

  Jansen, Jo: helps rescue a Jewish friend

  Janssen, Hank: falls for a deception

  Japan: Jews reach

  Jarvin, Marcel: rescued, arrested, saved

  Jasinski, Emilia: gives shelter

  Jasinski, Stanislaw: gives shelter

  Jasky, Joseph: hides three Jewish women

  Jassy (Romania): a death train from

  ‘Jausson, Jeanine’: an assumed identity, Photo

  Jedwabne (Poland): Jews rescued in

  Jehovah’s Witness, a: helps Jews

  Jelechowice (Eastern Galicia): Jews saved in

  Jeretzian, Dr Ara: shelters Jews in Budapest

  Jericho: and the road from Jerusalem

  Jerusalem: funeral in, xv; conference in; evidence in; Avenue of the Righteous in; a rescuer invited to; ‘Hidden Children’ gather in; a visitor to, later leads rescue efforts; and the road to Jericho

  Jerusalem Alley (Warsaw): and a search for a safe haven

  ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’ (Vilna):

  Jerusalem Post: interviews a ‘Jew-lover’ describes a ceremony in Amsterdam honouring rescuers

  Jerzens (Austria): a Jewish woman ‘in paradise’ in

  Jesuit College (Budapest): the Prior of, gives Jews sanctuary

  Jesuit Residence (Budapest): sanctuary in

  Jesuits: save Jews, xvi

  Jesus: and a Ukrainian’s curse; and the population of Drohobycz; and the peasants of Siedliska; ‘Go thou and do likewise’ ‘I would be forgiven’ a ‘witness’ to a pledge; work ‘pleasing’ to; the ‘idea of’, and a rescuer

  Jewish Centre of Culture (Warsaw): Righteous medals presented at

  Jewish Children’s Home (Oslo): a warning to

  Jewish Council (Amsterdam, Holland): and an ominous notice

  Jewish Fighting Organization (Warsaw): seeks weapons; a member of, in hiding; members of, recall Righteous Poles; a member of, saved after being wounded

  Jewish Foundation for the Righteous: assists rescuers

  Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw): testimony in

  Joachim S.: in hiding

  Jodoigne (Belgium): Jews hidden in

  Jolimont (Belgium): a clinic in, shelters Jews

  Jonisz, Cywia: in hiding

  Josephinium (Budapest): sixty Jewish children hidden in

  Jozefek, Kazimierz: hanged for helping Jews

  Jozsefvaros Station (Budapest): deportations from

  Jozwikowska, Sister Stanislawa: takes in two Jewish girls

  Jukalo, Mr: helps Jews

  Jurgens, Albert: a rescuer, in Berlin

  Jurkovic, Pastor: helps Jews

  Justice in Jerusalem (Gideon Hausner): thanks Norwegian resistance for rescue efforts

  Justman-Wisnicki, Lorraine: reflects on ‘the plague of blackmail’ helped by Austrians

  Justyna, Danka: helps save three Jews

  Justyna, Mala: helps save three Jews

  Jusym, Salomon: in hiding

  Juzek family: hide Jews

  Kabacznik, Miriam: in hiding

  Kabilio-Grinberg, Tova: and her father’s escape

  Kaczerginski, Shmerl: saved

  Kaczmarek, Father: and a Jewish girl in hiding

  Kaczmarski, Stefan: killed for hiding Jews

  Kagan, Idel (Jack): and rescue in eastern Poland

  Kagan, Joseph: saved

  Kagan, Margaret: saved

  Kagan, Mira: hidden

  Kajszczak, Bronislaw: ‘truly risked his life for us’

  Kakol, Jan: saves a Jewish child

  Kalarash (Romania): a death train to

  Kalenczuk, Fiodor: saves Jews

  Kalin, Lea: protected in a munitions factory; with her Polish fellow-workers, Photo

  Kallo, Ferenc: a rescuer, executed

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: protests about Italian help for Jews

  Kaluszko, Jan: helps Jews in Warsaw

  Kamenets Podolsk (Ukraine): acts of rescue at

  Kaminska, Mrs: suspects a Jewish woman is in hiding

  Kampen (Holland): rescuers in

  Kampenhout, Reinier: a Dutch rescuer, caught and killed

  Kanabus, Dr Feliks: reverses circumcisions

  Kanes, Caroline: ‘smuggle my baby out…’

  Kanes, Levie: a Jewish baby, saved in Holland

  Kanes, Levie (senior) and Ester: murdered at Sobibor

  Kanes, Maurits and Rebecca: murdered at Auschwitz with their children

  Kanes, Salomon: murdered

  Kanis, Jan: a rescuer, in Holland

  Kanis, Petronela: takes over her husband’s work of rescue

  Kanner, Cecile (Cecile Kann-Kanner): the saga of her rescue

  Kansas City Star: a reporter on, seeks recognition for a rescuer

  Kanzler, Simon: in hiding, victim of an SS reprisal

  Kapitan, Yashuk: shelters Jews

  Kaplan, Mary: hidden

  Kaplanas, Zahar: saved

  Karlby, Bent: helps Jews escape from Denmark

  Karpe, Liese: her parents comforted

  Karrer, Lucas: sends Jews to safety

  Kassa (Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia): an act of rescue in

  Katerini (Greece): rescue in

  Katow (a Dutch Jewish girl): in hiding

  Katyn forest (Russia): murders at

  Katzenelson, Yitzhak: interned with his son; deported

  Kaufering (Germany): an act of kindness at

  Kaufman, Guta: saved

  Kaufmann, Marion: her various rescuers; with her Gypsy rescuers, Photo

  Kaunas (Lithuania): ‘Righteous Diplomats’ in; ‘Righteous Gentiles’ in; see also Kovno Ghetto

  Kavaja (Albania): Jews find refuge in

  Kazimierz Square (Warsaw): and the murder of a family that sheltered Jews

  Keidziai (Lithuania): Jews hidden in

  Keller, Zygmunt: in hiding

  Kepski, Juliusz and Stefania: given refuge

  Kerkhofs, Bishop: helps hide Jews

  Kermisz, Dr J.: information provided by

  Keurhorst, Cornelius: a rescuer, shot

  Kfare, Roza: in hiding

  ‘Khaminskyi’: a surname, in hiding

  Kharkov (Ukraine): rescuers in

  Kielce (Poland): a rescuer escapes in; rescuers in; Council for Assistance to the Jews in; a Christian woman from, and her acts of kindness in Auschwitz

  Kiev (Ukraine): a priest in, saves Jews; a Righteous German, in a labour camp near; two Righteous Ukrainian sisters in

  Kilessopoulis, Nikos: helps Jews<
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  Kindertransport: rescue of Jews through

  Kiril, Metropolitan (of Plovdiv): rescues Jews

  Kiss, Barna: helps Jews in his labour unit

  Kistarcsa (Hungary): a Scottish woman deported from; Jews brought out from

  Kizelshtein family: saved by a German

  Kizelshtein, Mina (Mina Doron): her testimony about a Righteous German

  Kizelshtein, Shamai: gives testimony for a Righteous German

  Klajman, Jankiel: and ‘the kindness of many strangers’

  Klarsfeld, Serge: and the war against French Jewish children

  Klass-Aronowitz, Selma: recalls her rescuer

  Kleiba, Father: shelters Jews

  Kleiman, Lidia: in hiding

  Klein, Annie and Charles: in hiding, with the daughter of their rescuer, Photo

  Klein, Maria: given sanctuary

  Klejnot, Estera: given refuge

  Klepacka, Maria: her act of rescue

  Klepacka-Donalis, Helena: recognized as Righteous

  Kleparow (Lvov): a rescuer in, executed

  Klepinin, Father: helps Jews; arrested

  Klibanski, Bronka: pays tribute to a rescuer

  Klima, Mrs: helps hide a Jewish couple

  Klin, David: recalls help given to Jews

  Klipstein, Irma and Leo: find refuge

  Klipstein, Ursula (Janine Gimpleman Sokolov): in hiding

  Klukowski, Dr Zygmunt: records fate of a Righteous Pole

  Knapp, Max and Ans: help save a Jewish child

  Knies, Hildegard: a rescuer, in Berlin

  Knochen, SS Colonel: protests at Italian refusal to adopt German view of ‘the Jewish question’ protests at Italian sabotage of anti-Jewish measures

  Kobilnitsky, Lew: rescues Jews

  Koehler, Max: a rescuer, in Berlin

  Kohl, Max: a German rescuer

  Kolacz, Andrzej: hides six Jews

  Kolacz family: rescuers

  Kolacz, Stanislawa: brings water for Jews in hiding

  Koldiczewo (eastern Poland): a rescuer imprisoned at

  Kolin (Czechoslovakia): a survivor from

  Kolomyja (Eastern Galicia): Jews saved in; an escapee from

  Kongsvinger (Norway): a route to safety through

  Konieczny, Joseph (and his sons Stach and Sender): shelter seventeen Jews

  Konieczny, Mrs: shot

  Kontsevych family: shelter Jews

  Kontsevych, Tanka: her ‘humaneness’

  Kopacsi, Sandor: hides seven Jews

  Koren, Pastor Emil: helps Jews in Budapest

  Koreniuk, Marie: helps Jews in hiding

  Korkuc, Kazimierz: helps Jews

  Korkuciany (Poland): Jews find refuge in

  Korkut, Dervis: refuses to collaborate

  Korkut, Servet: and a rescue stratagem

  Korn, David: and the noble acts of Pastor Kuna

  kosher food: provided for Jews in hiding

  Koslowska, Krystyna: recognized as Righteous

  Kosovo (Yugoslavia): Jews deported from

  Kosow (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish girl hidden in

  Kossak, Zofia: and the Council for Assistance to the Jews; Photo

  Kostopol (Poland): an escape from

  Kostowiec (Poland): an orphanage at

  Kostrze (Poland): a ‘kind’ German at

  Kovno Ghetto (Lithuania): Jews rescued from; a survivor of, and an act of kindness in Dachau; a survivor of, and an act of kindness in a slave labour camp

  Kowalski, Colonel Wladislaw: his rescue efforts

  Kowicki, Janka: and a Jewish girl in hiding

  Kowicki, Sophie and Emil: rescuers

  Kozlovsky, Kostik: helps Jews

  Krakinowski, Miriam: saved

  ‘Kraler, Mr’: a rescuer’s pseudonym

  Kramarski, Alojzy: a Polish ‘benefactor’

  Kranz, Zygmunt and Franciszka: saved, with their son

  Kranzberg, Pessah: hidden, with his family

  Krasucki, Irena: takes in a new-born infant

  Kraszewski, Bianka: in hiding

  Krell, Robert: recalls his Dutch rescuers

  Kremenchug (Russia): a Righteous Russian in

  Kremer, Akiba: given shelter, then murdered

  Kreuzlingen (Switzerland): women released from a concentration camp reach Switzerland through

  Kristallnacht: Jewish refugees from; and a prayer ‘for the Jews’ and a Nazi Party member’s contempt for

  Krol, Mulik: rescued

  Kron, Gita: her daughter saved

  Kron, Ruth: saved

  Kron, Tamara: deported

  Krosney, Mary Stewart: recounts the story of a French rescuer

  Kruja (Albania): Jews find refuge in

  Krupinksi, Jerzy and Aniela: given sanctuary

  Kryvoiaza, Alexander: saves Jews

  Kryzhevsky, Fedor: saves Jews

  Ksiaz Wielki (Poland): seventeen Jews hidden in

  Kubran, Jack: saved

  Kubran, Lea: saved

  Kudlatschek (a Sudeten German): helps Jews

  Kugler, Victor: a rescuer, betrayed

  Kujata, Father Michael: hides a Jewish girl; Photo

  Kukuryk, Wladyslaw: shelters two Jews

  Kuna, General: a liberator

  Kuna, Pastor Vladimir: helps Jews

  Kurjanowicz, Ignacy and Maria: save Jews

  Kurpi, Bronislawa: saves a four-year-old boy; Photo

  ‘Kurpi, Stanislaw Henryk’: an assumed identity; Photo

  Kurtz (husband and wife): adopt a ‘Hidden Child’

  Kutorgene, Dr Elena: hides Jews

  Kuziai (Lithuania): a journey of rescue to

  Kwiecinska, Janina: hides Jews

  Kwiecinska, Janina, Maria and Hanna: help their mother (also named Janina) hide Jews

  Kyprian, Father: and a Jewish boy in hiding

  La Bouverie (Belgium): Jews given refuge in

  La Caillaudière (France): a Jewish girl saved in

  La Farge, Mademoiselle: a rescuer

  La Garneyre (France): two Jewish children in hiding at

  La Guespy children’s home (France): Jewish children hidden in

  La Tour d’Auvergne (France): a rescuer in

  Lacny, Wladyslaw, Stanislawa and Irena: give refuge to a Jewish family

  Lador, Ehud: presents Righteous medals

  Lafayette, Marquis de: his château becomes a place of refuge

  Lajbman, Isaac and Bernard: given refuge; Photo

  Lamhaut, Sara: in hiding; her First Communion, Photo

  Landau, Dr Kamila: saved

  Landau, Ludwig: sheltered, denounced, executed

  Lando, Jerzy: the saga of his rescue

  Lapchensko, Chaim: helped by a German

  Lapis, Father: attempts to save Jews

  Laporterie, Raoul: his rescue efforts

  Laskowski (an Ethnic German): a decent guard

  Latte, Konrad: his many rescuers

  Lattes, Mario: recalls an Italian rescuer

  Latvia: rescuers in

  Latvians: and collaboration, xix; and rescue

  Lau, Israel (later Chief Rabbi): saved

  Laurentius, Dr: a ‘righteous man’

  Laurysiewicz, Stefania: protects three Jews

  Lavorishkes (Lithuania): an act of rescue in

  Laxander, Walenty: saves a Jewish child

  Lazanowski family: rescue three Jews

  Lazareanu, Barbu: seeks help

  Lazdijai (Lithuania): a Jewish girl saved in

  Laznik, Esther Rachel: saved

  Laznik, Heinich: his daughter’s rescue; finds his daughter after the war

  Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France): Jews in hiding at; a rescuer with some of her ‘children’ at, Photo

  Le Coteau Fleuri (France): a refugee home

  Le Henaff, Germaine: hides Jewish children

  Le Jeune, Jeanne: hides a Jewish boy

  Le Puy (France): a rescuer arrested in

  Le Vernet (France): internment camp at

  Lede
rman, Annette and Margot: in hiding; Photo

  Leenhardt, Dr Adolf: a Viennese, helps Jews in Poland; and a rescue stratagem

  Lefèvre family: shelter a Jewish boy

  Leffe, Home of (Belgium): Jews given refuge in

  Leforestier, Dr Roger and Danielle: help Jews; together, Photo

  Lehr, General Alexander von: fails to get Italian help

  Lehrer (a lawyer): saved

  Lientje (a Jewish girl): with her rescuer, Photo

  Leitner, Isabella: recalls a ‘gentile woman’ in Auschwitz who helped Jews

  Lemecki, Mr: thanks Hitler, but saves Jews

  Lemensorf, Leopold: helped by an Austrian

  Leningrad (Russia): German drive to

  Lentink-de-Boer, Eelkje: a Dutch rescuer

  Lepin le Lac (France): a journey to safety through

  Lepkifter, Grand Rabbi (of Liège): given refuge

  ‘Leroy’: an assumed surname

  Lesin, Benjamin: relates a story of rescue and murder; and the ‘modesty’ of rescuers

  Lesko (Poland): rescuers in

  Lesterps (France): an act of rescue at

  Levai, Eugene: lists Christian rescuers in Budapest

  Levi family (from Genoa): protected by an Italian family

  Levi, Elia: recalls her family’s rescue

  Levi, Primo: at Buna-Monowitz

  Levin, Isidor: saved

  Levin, Leyzer: found a hiding place

  Levine, Allan: reflects on betrayal and rescue

  Levis family: rescued

  Levis, Jeff (Pepos Levis): and ‘Greek Christian friends’

  Levy, Alexander: recounts his mother’s rescue

  Levy, Josephine: protected

  Lévy, Madeleine: murdered

  Lewartow, Rabbi Menashe: and ‘last respects to the dead’

  Lewin, Rabbi Aaron: murdered

  Lewin, Cesia and Janek: shelter found for

  Lewin, Kurt: found a place to hide

  Lewin, Yechezkel: seeks support for fellow Jews

  Lewin, Zofia: records Righteous acts; reflects on her rescuers

  Lewit, Erna: saved

  Lewit, Jakov: his daughter in hiding

  Lewkowitz, Berthe and Jacques: given a safe haven

  Lewkowitz, Perl: deported with one of her sons

  Leysorek, Heynoch: escapes execution

  Lichtenberg, Bernhard: offers prayers for the Jews

  Lichterman, Jakub: finds refuge from a Death March

  Liczkowce (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish girl hidden in

  Lida (eastern Poland): an escape route through; Jews sent for safety to

  Liderman, Josef: seeks sanctuary, then murdered

  Liderman, Szmuel: seeks sanctuary

  Liedke, Major: agrees to a subterfuge

  Liège (Belgium): and a Belgian rescuer

 

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