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Jewish Rescuers (see Holocaust Children Studies)

• See Non-Jewish Rescuers (Righteous among the Nations)

Overview

Notable persons

Holocaust Refugee Children

Kindertransport

• Nicholas Winton (M / England, 1909-2015) -- Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.

Kraus Rescue Mission

• Gilbert Kraus (M / United States, 1897-1975)
• Eleanor Kraus (F / United States, 1903-1989)

Hidden Children

Izieu (France)

• Sabine Zlatin / Sabine Chwast (F / France, 1907-1996), Holocaust survivor
• Miron Zlatin (M / France, 1904-1944), Holocaust victim

Villa Emma (Nonantola, Italy)

Josef Ithai Indig (M / Coatia, 1917–1998), Holocaust survivor -- Indig was the youth counselor for the Jewish children in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola, Italy. -- Josef Indig Ithai wurde in Virovitica, einer Grenzstadt in Kroatien nahe der ungarischen Grenze geboren und lebte anschließend mit seinen Eltern in Osijek, wo sein Vater Kantor war. Bereits mit neun Jahren trat er der zionistischen Jugendorganisation Ha-Shomer-ha-Tza'ir bei und wurde Mitglied im nationalen Komitee für Jugoslawien mit Sitz in Zagreb. Dort rettete er zusammen mit Recha Freier Kinder aus Deutschland und Österreich, deren Eltern dem NS-Terror zum Opfer gefallen waren. Als Jugoslawien von Deutschland und Italien besetzt wurde, floh Indig mit 43 Kindern 1941 zunächst in das italienisch besetzte Slowenien, im Juli 1942 nach Nonantola, wo die Gruppe – unterstützt von der jüdischen Hilfsorganisation DELASEM – in der Villa Emma Zuflucht fand. Im April 1943 vergrößerte sich die Gruppe um 33 Waisenkinder aus Split. Nach der deutschen Besetzung am 8. September 1943 gelang es Indig und den Betreuern mit Hilfe des Arztes Guiseppe Moreali und dem Priester Arrigo Beccari beinahe alle Kinder durch Flucht in die Schweiz zu retten. Nach 1945 wanderte Indig mit seiner Frau Lilli Bernhard nach Israel aus, wo er bis zu seinem Tod im Kibbuz Gat lebte. Vom Staat Israel wurde er wegen seiner pädagogischen Verdienste ausgezeichnet. Seine Erinnerungen an die Kinder der Villa Emma schrieb er zunächst in Deutsch. Sie wurden ins Hebräische übersetzt und erschienen 1983 in Tel Aviv, 2004 in italienischer Übersetzung.

Marcel Network (Nice, France)

• Odette Abadi / Odette Rosenstock (F / France, 1914-1999), Holocaust survivor
• Moussa Abadi (M / France, 1910-1997), Holocaust survivor

Hollandse Schouwberg

• Walter Süskind (M / Netherlands, 1906-1945), Holocaust victim -- In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, they were instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
• Henriette Pimentel (F / Netherlands, 1876-1943), Holocaust victim
• Raphael Halverstad (M / Netherlands, 1904-1978), Holocaust survivor

• With Non-Jewish Rescuers : Johan van Hulst (M / Netherlands, 1911-2018)

Partisans

Bielski Partisans

• Tuvia Bielski (M / Belarus, 1906-1987), Holocaust survivor -- built a viable settlement – including public kitchen, medical clinic, hospital, bakery, flourmill, bathhouse, stables, schools and more – hidden in the harsh Belarus forest. By the end of the war, 1200 Jews who escaped from ghettos in the vicinity found refuge in what became know as “Beilski’s Shtetl.”

Nazi Ghettos & Concentration Camps =

Warsaw Ghetto

• Janusz Korczak / Henryk Goldszmit (M / Poland, 1878-1942), Holocaust victim
• Stefania Wilczyńska (F / Poland, 1886-1942), Holocaust victim

• See also Non-Jewish Rescuers : Irena Sendler (F / Poland, 1910-2008)

Theresienstadt

• Fredy Hirsch (M / Germany, 1916-1944), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust victim -- Hirsch was the deputy supervisor of children at Theresienstadt and the supervisor of the children's block at the Theresienstadt family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

• Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (F / Austria, 1898-1944), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust victim -- During her time at Terezín, she gave art lessons for the children of Terezín.

• Hans Krása (M / Czechia, 1899-1944), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust victim -- Composer of the children's opera Brundibar at Theresienstadt

• František Zelenka (M / Czechia, 1904-1944), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust victim -- Stage director and set designer of the 55 representations of Brundibar at Theresienstadt

• Camilla Rosenbaum / Kamila Rosenbaumová / Karla Ronova (F / Czechia, 1908-1988), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust survivor -- choreographer -- Born 1908 in Vienna. Transported to Terezín in January 1942. Rosenbaumová worked as a children's care worker in the youth home for girls in L 410. Starting in spring 1943 she rehearsed the children's book "Broučci" and the opera Brundibar as a dance theatre together with young children in Terezín. Transported to Auschwitz in 1944 and sent back to Terezín with an evacuation transport in 1945. Liberated in Terezín in May 1945.

Bergen-Belsen

• Luba Tryszynska (F / Poland, 1918-2009), Holocaust survivor -- Luba Tryszynska-Frederick rescued 54 children left for dead by the Nazis while she was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

• Yehoshua Birnbaum (M / Poland, 1902-1992), Jewish rescuer, Holocaust survivor

DP Camps

Warburg Children's Home (Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany)

• Sally Wideroff / Selma Bendremer (F / United States, 1913‐2011) -- The JDC relief worker spent thirteen months in the British Zone of Germany where she worked first in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Warburg children's home in Hamburg-Blankenese. -- Selma (Sally) Wideroff (1913‐2011) was born Selma Bendremer in New York City. She obtained degrees in child growth and development and joined the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in November 1945. She served first in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons (DP) camp as the liaison between representatives of the JDC, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the DP camp's Central Jewish Committee. She also worked to establish educational, recreational and cultural programs. Later she supervised renovation of the Warburg Estate near Hamburg which became the Blankenese children’s center for children from Bergen‐Belsen without families. She served as the JDC's child welfare specialist at the center. In April 1946 she escorted a group of orphans to Marseilles on the first leg of their journey to Palestine as part of the first postwar Youth Aliyah transport. After she returned home in December 1946, she worked as a field representative for the JDC.

• Reuma Weizman (F / Palestine, 1925) -- At the age of 22, volunteered to leave her home in Palestine to help care for the orphans of Blankenese.