S?ra Salkah?zi was a Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister who saved the lives of approximately one hundred Jews during World War II. Denounced and summarily executed by the Pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party.
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Dimitar Pesher
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Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice (1935-1936), before World War II. He rebelled against the pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews.
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Irena Sendler
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Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II, and was head of the children's section of %u017Begota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews. Assisted by some two dozen other %u017Begota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Gh
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes
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Aristides de Sousa Mendess was a Portuguese consul. As Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux, France, he defied the orders of Portugal's Ant?nio de Oliveira Salazar dictatorship, issuing visas in 1940 to thousands of refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early period of World War II. He was punished by his government for his
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Chiune Sugihara
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Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland and residents of Lithuan
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Si Kaddour Benghabrit
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During World War II, Si Kaddour Benghabrit saved a hundred Jews, including that of the Algerian singer Salim Halali, making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation.
Still later that same afternoon, an army detachment under the command of Oberleutnant Battel broke into the cordoned-off area of the ghetto and used army trucks to evacuate up to 100 Jews and their families to the barracks of the local military command. These Jews were placed under the protection of the Wehrmacht and were thus sheltered from deport
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Mohammed Helmy
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Dr. Mohammed Helmy was an Egyptian doctor who saved several Jews from Nazi persecution in Berlin during the Holocaust.
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Selahattin Ulkumen
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Turkish and Greek Jews alike were deported to the death camps from the island of Corfu. But on the island of Rhodes, Turkey's Consul, Selahattin ?lk?men, saved the lives of close to 50 people.
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Karl Plagge
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Major Karl Plagge was a Wehrmacht officer, engineer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews in order to give them a better chance to survive the nearly total annihilation of Lithuania's Jews that took place between 1941%u20131944.
