The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (65 page)

Sandezer, Felicja: saved

Sandrigaylo, Emma: and a Jewish boy in hiding

Sanok (Western Galicia): a safe haven in

Sanz-Briz, Angel: his rescue efforts in Budapest; leaves Budapest; Photo

Saperstein, Captain Harold (Rabbi Saperstein): describes the actions of a Righteous Belgian

Sarajevo (Bosnia): Muslims protect Jews in

Sarajevo Haggadah
: protected

Sardinia: a rescuer from

Sarfati, Buena: and an Italian’s act of rescue

Sarna, Marcin: sheltered, then executed

Sarna, Harvey: his archive

Satoraljaujhelyen (Hungary): a Righteous Calvinist in

Saul, Eric: his ‘Visas for Life’ exhibition

Sauvage, Pierre: reflects on his rescuers; reflects on the stories of the Righteous

Sauvagemont (Belgium): two Jewish boys find refuge in

Sawicka, Maria: helps Jews

Sawicki, Stefan: executed

Sawko family (Jozef, Antoine and Malwina): enable Jews to survive

Schade, Arthur: helps Jews; in an anti-Nazi cell

Schechter, Golda: sheltered, with her children

Schenherr family: help a mother and daughter

Schenker, Eugenia: records betrayals and rescue

Schepaniuk, Roman and Julia: rescuers

Scheveningen (Holland): and an act of rescue

Schijveschuurder, Joop and Loek: in hiding in Holland

Schindler, Emilie: revives Jewish deportees

Schindler, Oskar: saves Jews, xv; at a post-war reunion with some of ‘his’ Jews, Photo

‘Schindler’s List’: submitted to the SS

Schindler’s List
(film):

Schivo, Don Beniamino: helps a Jewish refuge

Schläde, Lieutenant: helps Jewish women in a slave labour camp

Schmid, Sergeant Anton: helps save Jews in Vilna; executed

Schmidt, Sergeant: a ‘decent’ German soldier, in a slave labour camp

Schneider, Chawa: arrested and deported

Schneider, Munisch: given refuge

Schneider, Peter: records Righteous acts in Berlin

Schoen family: find a hiding place

Schotte, Marie: hides Jews, in Holland

Schoumans, Jan: rescues a Jewish woman; honoured in Toronto; a ‘humanist’

Schouten, Cornelia: a Dutch rescuer

Schultz, Fritz: helps a Jew

Schultz, Irena: brings help into the Warsaw Ghetto

Schulz, Gustav and Anni: rescuers, in Berlin

Schwartz, Dana (Dana Szapira): in hiding

Schwarz, Helka: saved

Schwarz, Joseph: collects testimonies

Schwarz, Käthe: a rescuer, in Berlin

Schwarz, Sabina: the odyssey of her survival

Schweitzer, Albert: helpers of, become rescuers; and ‘heroic altruism’

Scotland: and a brave teacher; and a soldier-rescuer

Segal, Louis: meets a ‘legendary’ rescuer

Seiden, Cecile: given refuge, with her mother; and the motives of her rescuers

Seidman, Hillel: saved

Sejkorov, Egon and Erna: helped

Selig, Ursula Korn: a German Jewish refugee in Italy, found sanctuary; in hiding, Photo

‘Semitic names’: documents issued without

Semovice (Czechoslovakia): an act of kindness at

Sendlerowa, Irena: heads rescue efforts for children

Sened, Yonat: saved

Senior, Julia Henriquez: helped by a German

Sera and Jaap (two Jewish children): and a failed escape

Serapinas family: give refuge

Serbia: rescue in

Serbs: atrocities against

Servalli, Giovanni: helps a German-Jewish refugee family

Seventh Day Adventists: and a Dutch rescuer

Sevenum (Holland): several hundred Jews hidden in

Seweryn, Tadeusz: recalls fate of Righteous Poles

Seyre (France): Jewish children find refuge at

Shakhbazyan, Knarik: a rescuer

Shaki, Rena: saved

Shanghai: Jews reach

Shaparis, Apolonia: saves a Jewish girl

Shapiro-Rosenzweig, Yetta: in hiding

Sharoni, Baruch: reflects on rescue, xviii; reflects on the numbers of the rescuers

Shavli Ghetto (Siauliai, Lithuania): a girl rescued from; an attempted rescue at

Shelshelovich, Zelda: saved; marries her rescuer

Sheptitsky, Father Ihumen: helps a Jew in hiding

Sheptitsky, Metropolitan Andreas: an appeal to; arranges hiding places; mourned

Shestakovsky, Ignatzia: helps save Jews

Shestakovsky, Mikhail and Mikhilina: ‘noble souls’

Shetz, Ignnetz: saved

Sheyenson (a Jew in Riga): rescued

Shifra (a midwife): defies Pharaoh, xv

Shijak (Albania): Jews find refuge in

Shkoder (Albania): Jews saved in

Shtraim, Bluma: killed, but her son saved

Shtraim, Fima: saved

Shtraim, Ilya: lost; found

Shubaliuk, Svetlana: seeks ‘Valik’

Siauliai (Lithuania):
see
Shavli Ghetto

Siberia: a pretended exile to; a former exile in

Sicily: conquered

Sieciechowice (Poland): a Jewish girl in hiding in

Siedlce (Poland): Council for Assistance to the Jews in

Siedliska (Poland): Jews betrayed in

Sighet (Hungarian-occupied Romania): and ‘wonderful Maria’

Silberman, Jacques: in hiding, in Belgium

Silberman, Rachelle (Rachelle Goldstein): recalls her rescuer; in a convent garden, Photo

Silbermann, Mr: in hiding

Silesia: and a rescue stratagem

Silvers, Paul: recalls his rescuer

Simaite, Ona: helps Jews, and is punished

Simelis, Jadvyga: dies

Simelis, Mykolas: rescues Jews; murdered for saving Jews

Simond, Albert: helps Jews escape

Singen-am-Hohentwiel (Germany): a crossing to Switzerland through

Singer, Flora M.: and Father Bruno

Singer, Nechama: given shelter

Singer, Ruszka: given refuge

Sister Ewoud: hides a Jewish girl

Sister Jeanne Françoise: shelters a Jewish girl

Sister Ligoria: gives refuge

Sister Maria (in Liptovsky St Mikulas): her ‘devoted care’

Sister Maria (in Vilna): saves five Jews

Sister Theresa: teaches Jewish girls in hiding

Sisters of Bellegem (Belgium): shelter Jews

Sisters of the Divine Saviour (Budapest): provide refuge

Sisters of Don Bosco (Belgium): hide Jews

Sisters of the Eucharistic Union (Budapest): their rescue discovered

Sisters of the Good Shepherd (France): rescue a Jewish woman

Sisters of Maria Bambina (Gazzaniga, Italy): give refuge to a Jewish brother and sister

Sisters of Mercy of Szatmar (Budapest): hide twenty Jews

Sisters of Mercy (Tluste, Poland): shelter Jews

Sisters of the Order of Divine Love (Budapest): rescue efforts by

Sisters of St Joseph (France): hide Jewish children

Sisters of St Mary (Belgium): give refuge to Jewish girls

Siwek, Stanislaw: helps survivors of a Death Camp revolt

Skaryzsko-Kamienna (Poland): and a decent guard

Skidelsky, Valentin: rescued, in Vienna

Skierniewice (Poland): a Pole executed in

Skipwith, Sofka: helps Jews

Skobtsova, Elizabeth (Mother Maria): hides Jews and helps Jews; arrested; continues her rescue efforts in concentration camp

Skole (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish girl from, given refuge

Skolimow (near Warsaw): work as a gardener at

Skopje (Macedonia): Italian consular protection in

Skorzec (Poland): a rescue near

Skrzeszewski, Helena: saves Jews

Slachta, Margit: saves a Jewish religious leader

Slager, Vreesje and Sonia: in hiding, in Holland

Sletten, Ingeborg: saves Jewish children

Slonim (Poland, later Byelorussia): a Righteous woman buried in

Slovakia: a survivor from, xviii–xix; Jews helped to escape through; Pastor Kuna’s Righteous acts in; Jews from, reach Hungary; Jewish women from, in Auschwitz, and an act of kindness

Slovenia (Yugoslavia): refugees from, reach Italy

Smichov (Prague): a preacher in, calls for support for the Jews

Smit, Karst: a Dutch rescuer

Smit, Romke: a rescuer, killed in action

Smolar, Moshe: saved

Snekkersten (Denmark): Jews cross to Sweden from

Sobibor concentration camp (German-occupied Poland): deportations to

Socha, Magdalena: and a celebration

Socha, Leopold: helps save Jews; killed as ‘God’s punishment’

Society of the Virgin Mary (Budapest): hides sixty Jewish children

Sodom: ‘a righteous man in’

Sofer, Barbara: recounts a Righteous act

Sofia (Bulgaria): an act of rescue in

Sofia (a maid): and a Jew in search of refuge

Soignes, Forest of (Belgium): and a final act of rescue

Sokolinska, Mrs: hides two Jews

Solignac (France): a mother and daughter helped in

Soltisowas (a husband and wife): shelter a Jewish girl

Solymossor, Janos: intervenes to save Jews

Sonenson family: helped by non-Jews

Sorbonne (Paris): police raids on

Sosin, Otton: a tutor

Sosin, Tadeusz and Zofia: rescuers

Sosnowiec (Poland): execution and rescue in; a Jew allowed to write a letter to

Sosnowski, Aleksander: a Righteous Pole, executed

Sotgiu, Girolamo: helps Jews on the island of Rhodes; returns to Sardinia

Souillac (France): a mother and her daughter in hiding in, Photo

‘Sourbe family’: an assumed identity

South Africa: a Jew from, searches for his rescuers

Soviet Union: Jews leave Europe through; Germany invades; post-war Jewish emigration from;
see also
Red Army

Spain: escape routes to; a Luxembourg rescuer in; Holland welcomes Jews from (after 1492)

Spanish Legation (Budapest): rescue efforts of

Spector, Shmuel: describes an act of rescue; writes about a remarkable German

Spello (Italy): Jews given refuge in

Sperber, Henryk: saved with five members of his family

Spielberg, Steven: and the ‘Golleschau Jews’

Spiessen family: rescuers; ‘we were not heroes…’

Spiessen, Harry and Joss: risk their lives

Spiessen, Natalie: not told that the newcomers were Jewish

Spietz, Alfred: in hiding, captured and deported

Spiska Stara Ves: refuge in the forest near

Spychalski, Jan: helps three Jews

Staermose, Lieutenant Eric: helps Danish Jews escape

Stakauskas, Father: helps hidden Jews

Stalag 20B (prisoner-of-war camp): British rescuers from

Stalingrad, Battle of: and a celebration in hiding

Stanislawow (Eastern Galicia): Jews in hiding in

Stankiewicz, Jonas and Joana: save a Jewish child

Stankiewicz, Nijole: the daughter of rescuers, Photo

Star of David: in the ghettos; a protest against; punishment for not wearing; Goebbels protests at ‘lax’ Italian attitude towards; an Italian diplomat reports German demand to cancel instructions against; a Jewish boy takes off, after twelve days; in Budapest

‘Star of Solomon’ (Star of David): Germans demand cancellation of Italian instructions against

Starczewska-Korczak, Genowefa: helps save a Jewish girl

Steenstra, Albert: a Dutch rescuer, caught and killed

Steenstra, Louisa: a rescuer, forced to go into hiding

Stefan, Metropolitan (of Sofia): protests

Stein, André: interviews a Hidden Child

Stein, Heinz Thomas: given refuge; Photo

Steinberger, Itzhak: recalls a rescuer

Sten, Efraim: recalls a rescuer

‘Stepian, Jan’: an assumed name

Stepinac, Cardinal Aloysius: condones, then condemns and saves

Stepniewski, Tadeusz: a member of the Polish Council for Assistance to the Jews, Photo

Stern, Cecylia: saved, with her daughter Lili

Sternberg, Yaakov: and a Viennese rescuer; and an Austrian rescuer

Stettin (Germany): an attempt to protect deportees from; further deportations from; deportations from Norway through

Stettler family: rescuers, in Belgium

Stock, Ernest: finds his father after the war

Stock, Leo: in hiding in Holland

Stocker, Maria: an Austrian rescuer

Stockholm (Sweden): a rescue mission to

Stojka, Stanislaw: killed for hiding Jews.

Stokowski family: murdered for sheltering Jews

Stoler, Meir: saved

Stolowicki, Michael: saved; Photo

Stolowicze (eastern Poland): an act of rescue in

Stolp (Pomerania): deportations from

Strasbourg (France): Jewish boys from, in hiding, victims of an SS reprisal

Strauch, Richard: a ‘kind’ German

Strausz, Jozsef and Margit: save a Jewish boy

Streekstra family: hide a Jewish girl

Stroka, Leokadia and Kazimierz: hide a Jewish girl

Strom, Alik: given refuge

Stroop, SS General Jürgen: warns Christians not to hide Jews

Strumowka (Poland): a Righteous Ukrainian in

Strutynska-Christow, Teresa: hides Jews

Stryj (Eastern Galicia): an escape from

‘Strzycki, Bolek’: a new identity

Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry: a leader of, and the story of a Righteous act

Studite monastic order: a Jew forced to leave; Jews found shelter with

Stumpff, Lieutenant Alfred: testifies to the Righteous acts of a fellow-German

Stutthof concentration camp (near Danzig): deportations to; three Polish activists deported to; and a Polish girl’s gift; a deportee from, saved by British prisoners of war

Styr river: Baptists of

Sudetenland: Oskar Schindler’s factory in

Sugihara, Chiune: helps Jews leave

Sugny (Belgium): a hiding place in

Sunday Telegraph
: interviews a Righteous Frenchwoman

Supreme Court (Israel): a future President of, rescued

Susak (Croatia): Jews helped to escape from

Sutzkever, Avraham: in hiding

‘Suzanne’: an assumed identity, Photo

‘Suzy’: an assumed identity

Svitavy (Sudetenland, also called Zwittau): Oskar Schindler’s act of rescue at

Sweden: a survivor living in, helped in Warsaw; escapes to, from Norway; Jews smuggled from Holland to; Jews brought in safety to; buses on their way to, Photo