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The Righteous Few: The Rescuers

The Righteous Few: The Rescuers. The Righteous Among Nations. When governments would not act, brave individuals stepped forward . The Righteous Among Nations. Benedictine nuns near Vilna provided weapons to people in the ghetto There are many stories of people who helped a few people.

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The Righteous Few: The Rescuers

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  1. The Righteous Few: The Rescuers

  2. The Righteous Among Nations • When governments would not act, brave individuals stepped forward

  3. The Righteous Among Nations • Benedictine nuns near Vilna provided weapons to people in the ghetto • There are many stories of people who helped a few people

  4. Hiding Jews • Was not easy as rumors spread and neighbors were suspicious • Nazis constantly raiding homes and warehouses • Was risky for the person helping the Jew • Hiding places were very cramped

  5. The Catholic Church and Jews • Some individual priests and nuns rescued Jews • Pope was silent through most of the war • Sign of anti-Semitism? • Afraid Catholics of Europe would face final solution? • July 1944, Pope joins King of Sweden and International Red Cross to ask Hungarians to stop transporting Jews to camps

  6. Raoul Wallenberg • Swedish diplomat sent to Budapest, Hungary • Created false documents and saved thousands of Jews. • Was arrested by the Russians and never seen again.

  7. Schultzpass • Wallenberg issued this schultzpass (letter of protection) • Prevented Jews from being deported to almost certain death

  8. Joop Westerville • High School principal who took Jewish children on the underground railroad between Holland and Switzerland • Was captured and shot

  9. Miep Gies • Secretary in Amsterdam who for two years gave food and information to her Jewish boss and his family and another family were forced into hiding. • Found her boss’s diary in the attic • Diary of Anne Frank

  10. Janusz Korzcak • Was a Dr. in Warsaw, Poland who ran an orphanage • When the German’s gave the order for the children to be deported to Treblinka, he refused to leave them.

  11. Le Chambon sur-Lignon • Small town that became a haven for Jews during the Holocaust • Jews hidden by villagers and peasants in the countryside

  12. Germany occupies Denmark in 1940 King Christian X of Denmark says “We have no Jewish problem in our country.” 1943, Nazis decide to round up Jews and send them to death camps Rescue in Denmark

  13. Rescue in Denmark • Danes help them escape to Sweden • At the end of the war, they were welcomed back to Denmark

  14. Garden of the Righteous

  15. A Bitter Truth • The hard fact is that taken altogether, the rescue efforts of nations, of clergy, or individuals, saved only a few thousand Jewish lives. • The Nazis managed to take six million.

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