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The courage to care

During the Holocaust, many millions of individuals were murdered because of who they were. Sadly, few were rescued from their impending fate. There were, however, a relatively small number of non-Jewish people who recognised what was happening to the Jews of Europe and were prepared to risk their lives in order to try and save others, or oppose the Nazi regime.

A few of them have been mentioned on this page. Thousands more are remembered at the Avenue of the Righteous in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Some saved thousands of lives by helping people escape; others hid a smaller number, a family or an individual.

Ala Gartner,
held at Auschwitz, smuggled explosives which destroyed a crematorium in the October ‘44 uprising. She was publicly hanged with three other girls in
January 45.
Hannah Senesh
joined the RAF and was dropped behind enemy lines. She tried to warn the Jews but was caught and executed in Budapest, 1944.

Hesia Strom
was a partisan from Kaunas, Lithuania. She fought with a partisan unit in the Rudnicki forest south of Vilnius.

Sophie Scholl
began a German resistance movement in 1942 known as the White Rose.
   
 
 
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