The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (58 page)

Birkenau:
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Auschwitz Birnbaum, Charlotte: she and her family given refuge

Birnbaum, Gertrud: hidden

Birnbaum, Lazar and Frida: hand over their baby for safety

Birnbaum, Marguerite-Rose: in hiding; with the son of her rescuers, Photo

Bischof, Franz (a Swiss citizen): hides Jews in Budapest; Photo

Bixhiu, Nadire: finds places of refuge for eighty Jews

Blau, Leslie: describes a gesture of sympathy in Hungary; describes an act of rescue in Hungary

Blessed Are the Meek
(Zofia Kossak):

Bloch, Gerda and Doris: given sanctuary

‘Blokland, Dorothea’: an assumed identity

Bludenz (Austria): a Jew accompanied to

Blum, Gilbert: saved

Bobolice (Poland): rescue in

Bobowa (Poland): a young Jewish boy from, finds refuge

Bobrovski family: help Jews

Bochina (Poland): Council for Assistance to the Jews in; a Jewish family hidden near; a factory in, gives shelter to Jews

Bodart family (Belgium): shelters Jews

Boden, Arnold: helps a Jewish girl

Bodson, Victor: his acts of rescue

Boegner, Pastor Marc: issues clear instructions for rescue

Bogaard, Johannes: a rescuer; with two Jewish girls, Photo

Bogaard, Willem: saves twenty children; with two Jewish girls, Photo

Bogarde, Dirk: plays a Righteous British sergeant

Bogomolnaya, Rivka Lozanska: in hiding

Boguty Milczi (Poland): Jews hidden in

Bohemia (Czechoslovakia): three Jews given shelter in

Bohemian Brothers: a preacher in the church of

Bohic, Pauline: a rescuer

Bohny, August: shelters Jews

Bohr, Niels: saved; his biographer, rescued in Holland

Boinski (a farmer): helps Jews

Bole (a German): his Jewish wife helped; in an anti-Nazi cell

Bolzano (Italy): a deportation from

Bonhomme, Juliette: hides a Jewish mother and her three sons

Bonyhad (Hungary): a gesture of sympathy in; help during a Death March through

Boom (Belgium): rescuers in

‘Borek’: an assumed surname

Boris, King (of Bulgaria): church men protest to; the effect of public protests on

Borki (Poland): a Polish priest helps a survivor of revolt at

Bormann, Martin: ordered to make an arrest

Born, Friedrich (a Swiss citizen): his rescue efforts in Budapest; Photo

Bornstein, Hassia: helped by a German

Borowczyk (a shoemaker): helps a Jew

‘Borowska’: a name in hiding

Boryslaw (Eastern Galicia): rescuers and rescued in

Borzykowski, Chana and Benjamin: deported

Borzykowski, Jacky: in hiding; with his parents before going into hiding, Photo

Borzykowski, Tuvia: and some of the ‘finest personalities of the Polish people’ given shelter

Bosko, Oswald: a Viennese, helps Jews in Cracow; executed

Bosnia: Jews saved in, xvi

Bouge (Belgium): Jewish families in hiding in

Boyarskyi, Brother: helps a Jew

Braham, Randolph: reflects on Hungarian rescue efforts

Braine-l’Alleud (Belgium): a Jewish girl in hiding in

Brann, Henry Walter: recalls a ‘valiant churchman’

Branquino, Carlos de Liz-Texeira: his rescue efforts in Budapest

Bratislava (Slovakia): Righteous acts in

Braun, Felicia: given sanctuary

Brauns, Jack: recounts an act of kindness in Dachau

Brauns, Dr Moses: and an act of kindness in Dachau

Bredoux, Sister Marie-Gonzague: provides Sabbath candles

Breendonk (Belgium): an execution at

Brejna family: rescuers

Brenner, Aron: saved

Brenner, Mosze and Rozalia: saved

Breslau (Germany): a refugee from, found sanctuary in Italy

Brest-Litovsk (eastern Poland): rescue in; Council for Assistance to the Jews in

Brichta, Frantisek (Frank Bright): recalls a Righteous act

Briedys, Janis: rescues Jews

Briër, Frans and Maria: Dutch rescuers

Brik, Aaron (Aharon Barak): saved

Brillenburg-Wurth, Dr: a Dutch rescuer

Britain: takes in Jewish refugees; ‘Visas for Life’ exhibition in; Jews reach, after the war; a Dutch rescuer emigrates to; issues Palestine certificates for Jews in Budapest; ten soldier-rescuers from

British Army: liberates

Brittany (France): a place of refuge in

Brive (France): Jews smuggled from

Brno (Czechoslovakia): Oskar Schindler’s mission of mercy to

Brody (Eastern Galicia): rescue in, 35, 58-59 Italian soldiers in, help Jews

Bron family: and a Jew seeking sanctuary

Bronchart, Léon: refuses to drive deportation train

Bronna Gora (eastern Poland): massacre at

Brousse, Madame (Jeannette Maurier): helps Jews escape to Switzerland; reflects on her motivation

Bruess, Johannes: a German rescuer

Bruges (Belgium): Jews in hiding in

Bruining, Dr Nicolette (‘Tante Co’): a Dutch rescuer

Bruinvelds, Ezechiel and Anna: murdered at Sobibor

Brunnlitz (Sudetenland): Oskar Schindler’s factory in

Bruno (a Byelorussian): ‘not one of the nicer people’

Brussels (Belgium): refugees from, find sanctuary in France; help to Jews in; a rescuer in, honoured after liberation; Dutch Jews smuggled through

Brygier, Lucy: in hiding, Photo

Brygier, Sarah: in hiding, Photo

Brzezany (Eastern Galicia): Jews from, find a safe haven

Brzuchowice (Eastern Galicia): and a Jewish boy in hiding

Bucharest (Romania): a protest to

Buchenwald concentration camp: the husband of a Righteous German dies in; Jews deported to; a Dutch rescuer imprisoned in

Buchter, Marie: hides Jews, in Holland

Buchter, Tina (Dr Tina Strobos): hides Jews, in Holland; with one of those in hiding, Photo

Budapest (Hungary): a boy and his parents in hiding in; Eichmann and his SS Commando reach; Eichmann turns his attention to; acts of rescue in; a ‘gentile woman’ from, helps Jewish fellow prisoners in Auschwitz; motivation of a rescuer in

Budishevskaya, Floriya: saves a Jewish boy

Budnowska, Sister Tekla: hides Jewish girls

Budrikene, Lusia: a rescuer

Budzanow (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish family saved in

Bug River: flight towards, after betrayal; a Pole helps Jewish escapees at

Buggenhout, Clementine and Edouard Frans: Belgian rescuers

Buggenhout (Belgium): a Jewish child in hiding in

Bukovina: Jews from, find refuge; Jews of, find a champion

Bukovinsky (a priest): encourages an act of rescue

Bulgaria: Jews of, saved from deportation

Bulgarian Orthodox Churh: takes a lead

Buna-Monowitz (East Upper Silesia): a courageous British sergeant at

Bund, the (Jewish Social Democratic Workers Party): and ‘Aryan’ Warsaw; a leader of, in hiding

Bunel, Lucien-Louis (Père Jacques of Jesus):
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Père Jacques

Burdzynski (a Pole): helps Jews

Burlingis, Pawel and Wiktoria: save a Jewish baby girl

Burzec (Poland): betrayal at

Busold, Stanislawa: saves a new-born Jewish child

Busse, Otto: helps Jews, 211-12 reflects on his ‘Christian conscience’

Bussum (Holland): two Jewish couples given refuge in

Butrin, Adam: hides Jews

Buzhminsky, Yosef: witnesses the execution of rescuers

Byelorussia: acts of rescue in

Byelorussians: help Jews; help Germans

Cabaj, Jan: saves a Jewish girl

Cabaj, Stanislawa: shelters two Jewish girls

California (USA): a Righteous German settles in

Calmeyer, Hans-Georg: helps Jews

‘Calmeyer’s List’: Jews on, saved from deportation

Calvinists: save Jews

‘Camp of the Ants’: Jewish children find refuge at

Canada: ‘Visas for Life’ exhibition in; survivors in

Canadian soldiers: liberators

Canale d’Alba (Italy): Jews in hiding in

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm: helps Jews leave Germany

Capuchin Banneux Homes (Belgium): shelter Jews

Capuchin Convent (Rome): help for Jews in

Carcassonne (France): a rescuer in

Carl Fredriksen Transport Organization: helps Jews escape

Carmelites: and the rescue of Jews

Carpathian Mountains: a worker from, helps a Jew

Cassulo, Archbishop Andrea: appeals, in vain

Castle Hill (Budapest): and a Righteous pastor

Castle, John: his book about a Righteous British soldier

Catholic Front for the Reborn Poland: its head, leads rescue efforts

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (USA): and a wartime papal injunction

Catholic University of Lublin: a Polish rescuer at

Cavilio, Josef: sheltered, with his family

Celiny (Poland): a rescuer in

Centnerszwer, Professor Mieczyslaw: sheltered, denounced, executed

Ceresole d’Alba (Italy): a safe haven

Chameides, Leon: in hiding; seeks recognition for a rescuer

Chameides, Zwi (later Zwi Barnea): in hiding

Chamonix (France): Jewish children saved in

Champagnat Institute of the Order of St Mary (Budapest): rescue efforts by

Champagne, Carlos and Celeste: provide refuge

Channel Islands: an act of rescue in

Charaszkiewicz, Maria: saves her Jewish dentist; further Righteous acts by

Charaszkiewicz, Mr: and a Jewess in hiding

Charité (Budapest): nuns of, hide eleven Jews

Château de la Guette (near Paris): Jewish children hidden in

Château de la Hille (France): Jews find refuge at

Château Lafayette (France): Jews find refuge at

Chavagnes-en-Paillers (France): Jewish children given sanctuary in

Chavagniac (France): Jewish children given refuge in

Chazan, Arje: given refuge, with his wife and children

Chelm (Poland): two Jewesses from, hidden in Warsaw

Chemnitz (Germany): a German doctor’s act of rescue near

Chicago: a rescuer settles in

Chiesa family: help a Jewish family in Italy

Chigier, Jerzy: saved, with his wife and children

Children of the Holocaust organization (Warsaw):

Chmielnik (Poland): two Jewish children from, rescued; and a false identity card

chocolate: and a successful rescue stratagem

Chodnikewicz, Maryla: helps two Jewish girls at Auschwitz

Cholopiny (Poland): Jews sheltered in

Choms, Wladyslawa: the ‘Angel of Lvov’

Chopin: his music, and a Jew in hiding

Chotiner, Zygmunt: saved

Christian Committee to Save Jews (Assisi, Italy):

Christian X, King (of Denmark): objects to German plans

Christianity: Jews converted to, xx

Christmas, Mr: saves Jewish boys

Christmas Eve: gifts on; a festive dinner on

Chumatkowski family: give refuge

Church of Scotland Mission (Budapest): a British subject at, deported to Auschwitz

Church Slavonic alphabet: and two Jewish boys in hiding

Churchill, Winston S.: denounces ‘mass deportation’ from France

Ciney (Belgium): Jews hidden in

circumcision: and rescue

Città di Castello (Italy): rescue in

Citterich, Lina and Vittoria: save a Jewish girl

Ciuccoli family: help an Italian Jewish family

Claims Conference (New York): gives financial support to rescuers

Clermont-Ferrand (France): Jewish girls sheltered in

Clobert, Jules: finds a safe haven for a Jew

Codogni, Karol: ‘humaneness’ of

Codogni, Stanislaw: helps Jews in hiding

Cohen, Jacques, Alfred and Elia: a Greek princess facilitates their escape

Cohen, Rachel: given refuge with her son and daughter

collaboration: xix–xx

College of Cévenol (France): Jews rescued in

Collm, Ludwig: in hiding

Collognes (France): sanctuary in

Comba, Mario and Alfredo: help hide Jews

Comité de Défense des Juifs (CDJ): in Belgium

Commandeur, Thames: a rescuer, in Holland

Communism: fall of, xviii Convent of the Good Shepherd (Budapest): hides Jewish girls

Convent of Sacré Coeur (Budapest): hides Jewish women and children

Convent of the Sacred Heart (Città di Castello, Italy): a Jewish family in hiding in

Convent of the Sacred Heart (Przemysl, Poland): Jewish children given refuge in

Convent of Stigmatique Nuns (Assisi, Italy): hide Jews

Cooper, Grazyna: and her mother’s rescue

Copenhagen (Denmark): a German warning in; a failed deportation mission to; public indignation in

Corfu (Greece): a boat from

Cornement-Louveigné (Belgium): Jews given shelter in

Corsica: a woman from, and rescue documents

Côte d’Azur (France): Germans distressed by Italian protection of Jews in

Count of Monte Cristo
(Dumas): and ‘moments of light’

Courtrai (Belgium): Jews in hiding in

Covens family: Dutch rescuers

Coward, Sergeant Charles: saves Jews at the Buna-Monowitz slave labour camp

Cracow: a recollection from, xviii; a protest from; General-Government ruled from; Council for Assistance to the Jews in; blackmail in; acts of rescue in; Jews helped to reach

Cracow Conservatory of Music: a graduate of, rescued

Croatia: collaboration in, xix; murder and rescue in; a Jewish boy from, finds refuge in Italy

Crysostomos, Archbishop: sends Jews to safety

Csizmadia, Malvina: helps Jewish forced labourers; Photo

Cukierman, Doba-Necha: saved, with her family

Cuorgné (Italy): refugees in hiding in, smuggled to Switzerland

Czarne na Bialem
(‘Black on White’): a newspaper that supported Jews

Czarny Dunajec (Poland): a Pole executed in, for helping Jews

Czechoslovakia: help for Jews in; refugees from, given sanctuary first in Norway, then Sweden; parts of, annexed by Hungary

Czekala, SS Sergeant: ‘a very good sort’

Czeret, Arieh: finds refuge

Czerniejew (Poland): a peasant rescuer in

Czernowitz (Romania): the Mayor of, intercedes on behalf of Jews