Obama to honor four who protected Jews during Holocaust [View all]
Source: AP
January 27, 2016, 9:19 am
WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama is slated honor four people, including Americans from Indiana and Tennessee, for risking their lives to protect Jews during the Holocaust.
The United Nations has designated Wednesday as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland in 1945.
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Master Sgt. (Roddie) Edmonds participated in the landing of US forces in Europe and was taken prisoner by the Germans. When the Germans ordered all Jewish prisoners of war to report, Edmonds defied the order by figuring out how to keep the Jewish POWs from being singled out for persecution.
(Lois) Gunden, a French teacher, established a childrens home in southern France that became a safe haven for children, including Jewish children she helped smuggle out of a nearby internment camp. She protected the children when French police showed up at the home.
The (Walery and Maryla) Zbijewskis hid a Jewish child in their Warsaw home until the girls mother could take her back.
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They are the "Righteous Among the Nations".