Righteous among the Nations, page 2
Saving people with baptism
Evangelical priest would baptise Jews to save them from certain death.
Israel awards 12 Slovaks as Righteous Among the Nations
During World War II, they saved people from certain death. These are their stories.
Hiding in the mountains
The rescuers of the Friedman family pretended their distant relatives were staying with them.
Slovakia commemorated Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day
Several events took place around Slovakia, mostly at former Jewish religious or memorial sites.
Holocaust survivor: We lived in a hole like rats
Herman Schlosser experienced Anti-Semitism even after World War 2 ended.
Seven more Slovaks recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
Also President Andrej Kiska attended the event.
Raising a child
The Kraus family joined the partisan troops and left a child in the care of a local woman.
Every person must be protected
Ondrej Hažer saved two Jewish families separately during the second World War.
No prosecutor, no judge
A German soldier found Eugen Kučera during the war but did not report him.
Living in a freezing hole
The Herman family survived the winter of 1944-45 in a freezing hole under a haystack.
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.
In the Dark of Night
KAŠŠA family offered Jews a goat chalet where they took shelter.
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.
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.
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.
Israel honours 10 Slovaks for heroism
ANOTHER 10 Slovaks joined those who have received the Yad Vashem (Righteous) title on January 27.
Hiding in the straw bed
Magdaléna Slamková and her husband hid Jewish couple in a straw bed for six months.
Reuniting family
Families care for children who are missing their parents.
From Bunker to good people
Mária and Ján Kustra hid Lilly Berrgrün and her son after Lilly’s husband was injured by bomb.
Pretending to be Catholic
Tzipora Sternová hid in the Hajdu family’s house and pretended to be their niece.
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