Difference between revisions of "Non-Jewish Rescuers"

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Non-Jewish Rescuers (see Holocaust Children Studies)

Antonín Kalina (M / Czechia, 1902-1990) -- A communist prisoner, head of Block 66 in Buchenwald.

Oskar Schindler (M / Germany, 1908-1974) -- Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews (including numerous children) during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Johan van Hulst (M / Netherlands, 1911-2018) -- In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.

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 * [[Oskar Schindler]] (M / Germany, 1908-1974) -- Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews (including numerous children) during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
+==== [[Hollandse Schouwberg]] ====
+* [[Johan van Hulst]] (M / Netherlands, 1911-2018) -- In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.
+* With [[Jewish Rescuers]] : [[Walter Süskind]] (1906-1945) -- [[Henriette Pimentel]] (1876-1943) -- [[Raphael Halverstad]] (1904-1978)