Righteous among the Nations - page 2

Ján Holčík accepted the award on behalf of his father, Juraj Holčík.

Saving people with baptism

Evangelical priest would baptise Jews to save them from certain death.

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Israel awards 12 Slovaks as Righteous Among the Nations

During World War II, they saved people from certain death. These are their stories.

Michaela Terenzani

Vlasta Lehotská accepted the award on behalf of Adama Fiačan.

Hiding in the mountains

The rescuers of the Friedman family pretended their distant relatives were staying with them.

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September 8, commemoriaiton of the Holocaust Vicitms and Racial Hatred Day, 2017, Bratislava

Slovakia commemorated Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day

Several events took place around Slovakia, mostly at former Jewish religious or memorial sites.

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Holocaust survivor: We lived in a hole like rats

Herman Schlosser experienced Anti-Semitism even after World War 2 ended.

Roman Cuprik

Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Slovak Republic Zvi Aviner Vapni

Seven more Slovaks recognised as Righteous Among the Nations

Also President Andrej Kiska attended the event.

Roman Cuprik

Raising a child

The Kraus family joined the partisan troops and left a child in the care of a local woman.

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Every person must be protected

Ondrej Hažer saved two Jewish families separately during the second World War.

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The railway carriage used to transport Jews to other camps

No prosecutor, no judge

A German soldier found Eugen Kučera during the war but did not report him.

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Living in a freezing hole

The Herman family survived the winter of 1944-45 in a freezing hole under a haystack.

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Augustín Lacika and his wife Valéria are righteous among the nations.

Like their own son

IN GRATITUDE to their Jewish doctor who had helped them on numerous occasions, the Lacika family treated the doctor’s son as their own, though he could not leave the house.

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Štefan Kašša and his wife Mária are righteous among the nations.

In the Dark of Night

KAŠŠA family offered Jews a goat chalet where they took shelter.

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Bratislav Handl and his wife Otília are righteous among the nations.

Fear of suffocating in a shed basement

AN SS officer sat a little girl on his lap at Christmas - but she was a Jew in hiding, posing as visiting family.

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Jozef Krajčovič with his wife Anna are righteous among the nations.

Eight months in a closed-off storage room

THE PLEA of a small girl reminded a blacksmith that his family was not so different. He walled up the pantry off the kitchen, leaving only a small hole for the exchange of food and waste, where a family lived for eight months in hiding.

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Ján Varga with his wife Anna are righteous among the nations.

Brave village protecting Jews

The Varga family, and indeed the whole village of Petrovce, endured suffering, fires, and deaths to protect Jews hiding in the area, rather than cooperate with the Nazis.

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