Who saved jews in WW2 ?

Question

OK can someone give me information on famous figures and such that saved Jews in WW2.. and also how they did it and how many did they manage to save ?

Answer 1

The best known are



Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German Nazi Party member and arms manufacturer. He saved 1,200 Jews by convincing the authorities that they were vital workers in his factories.



Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat working in Budapest. He saved at least 15,000 Jews by issuing them protective passports, and housing them in areas designated as under the protection of the Swedish embassy.

Answer 2

I saw a movie based on a Polish Girl who saved about 12 Jews and when the Russians came to her home she was Only 14



and the Russian soldiers were also Jewish but cannot remember the Name



there was also a German family who hid a Jewish family in the Basement of their Home



the stories and mostly true can be Viewed at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Answer 3

There are many stories of people who saved Jews during the war. A list of such people is kept here.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/virtual_wall.asp



If you click on the "featured Stories" link on the left hand menu you can pick a favourite.



One not featured but my personal favourite is that of Charles Coward, an Englishman from Edmonton in North London.



http://www.mqmagazine.co.uk/issue-17/p-47.php make sure you read both pages.



I hope these help.



Ray

Answer 4

Legend says that when the Germans ordered Jews in occupied Denmark to identify themselves by wearing armbands with yellow stars, King Christian X of Denmark and non-Jewish Danes thwarted the order by donning the armbands themselves.

A popular version of the legend has King Christian sporting an armband as he makes his daily morning horseback ride through the streets of Copenhagen, explaining to citizens that he wears the Star of David as a demonstration of the principal that all Danes are equal.

And non-Jewish Danes respond to their king's example by wearing the armband as well, thus preventing the Germans from identifying Jewish citizens and rendering the order ineffective.

It didn't really happen that way, but the Kingdom of Denmark did save their Jews.

Answer 5

A view people have, Oskar Schindler is many of the great examples of somebody saving Jews, watch Schindler's List, it's a great movie and it explains a lot on what Oskar Schindler did.

Answer 6

There are some interesting stories here -



http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/righteous.html

Answer 7

list of people who helped Jewish people and others to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, often called "rescuers". The list is not exhaustive, concentrating on famous cases, or people who saved the lives of many potential victims. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel, has recognized over 20,000 Righteous Among the Nations . Since 1963, a commission organized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel, and headed by an Israeli Supreme Court justice, has been charged with the duty of awarding people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations. As of January 2007, 21,758 people have received the honor The total of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, as of January 1, 2008 is 22,211.



google Yad Vashem or United States Holocaust Memorial Museum



Some I know about



The government of Finland refused repeated requests from Germany to deport its Finnish Jews to Germany. German demands for the deportation of Jewish refugees from Norway were largely refused. In Rome, some 4,000 Italian Jews and prisoners of war avoided deportation, many of them hidden in safe houses or evacuated from Italy by a resistance group organized by an Irish priest, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. Once a Vatican ambassador to Egypt, O' Flaherty used his political connections to help secure sanctuary for dispossessed Jews.

Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes issued 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities, though it cost him his career in 1941, when Portuguese dictator Salazar forced him out of his job. He died in poverty in 1954.

Brazilian diplomat Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas illegally issued Brazilian diplomatic visas to hundreds of Jews in France during the Vichy Government, saving them from certain death.

Chiune Sempo Sugihara, Japanese Consul-General in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1939–1940, issued thousands of visas to Jews fleeing Poland in defiance of explicit orders from the Japanese foreign ministry. The last foreign diplomat to leave Kaunas, Sugihara continued stamping visas from the open window of his departing train. After the war, Sugihara was fired from the Japanese foreign service, ostensibly due to downsizing. In 1985, Sugihara’s wife and son received the Righteous Among the Nations honor in Jerusalem, on behalf of the ailing Sugihara, who died in 1986.

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, Chinese consul-general to Austria Ho Feng Shan, and others also saved tens of thousands of Jews with fake diplomatic passes.

# Joseph André (1908-1973), Catholic priest of Namur

# Queen Élisabeth of The Belgians (1876-1965)

# Princess Alice of Greece

# Archbishop Damaskinos of Greece

Fro the U.K.

* Charles Coward

* Frank Foley

* Jane Haining (the only Scot on the list)

USA

* Varian Fry, Emergency Rescue Committee representative in France

* Martha Sharp

* Waitstill Sharp



you have to google them to know what , how they did it.



& you miss the point, these were common, ordinary people that did the right thing at that time & put their lives, their career on the line for people they did not know. ( unwittingly many of them like Oskar Schindler became known after they were recognized as "Righteous People"