The preservation of human values.
It was a memorable time of life that spring and summer of 1944 for Clara Ambrus, a young Catholic girl from Budapest, only nineteen at...
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Something quite ordinary.
The year was 1939; the place, the state of Nawanagar in British India. Half a world away, the Germans had invaded Poland, and the country...
He had no doubt.
On May 4, 1939, the tugboats maneuvered the SS St. Louis away from the dock in Hamburg for the start of her two-week transatlantic...
A divine sense of duty.
“What now?” That was the question for Vitka Kemperer, a 19-year-old Polish girl who had escaped the invading Nazis and found her way...
The crime of saving lives.
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to hear a renowned speaker on looted Nazi art. It is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were...
The finest of struggles.
It was April 19, 1943. Three young men peddled their bikes the 24 miles from Brussels to Boortmeerbeek, near the Nazi detention center in...
A fitting remembrance.
Thomas was in Los Angeles for work and happened to have some free time before his planned flight home the next day. And so, entirely...
A rescue committee of two.
Ida and Louise might best be described as “frumpy” – English spinsters, dressed in homemade clothes. They were nervous types, a little...
An unknown French wash woman.
It was a cold February morning in 1943. Little Gerda and her mother were German Jews living quietly on the fringes of society in Lyon,...
Until he found what he was searching for.
There are two heroes in this story – the first is Fanny Solomian, a young Jewish woman from Pinsk in Poland. Before the war she studied...
You decide.
Mildred Fish-Harnack was a young woman ahead of her time. In the early 1930s she was teaching literature at the University of Berlin, in...
His own personal miracle.
One more trip, one more disappointment – the train ride from Germany to Austria was just one of many Elias had taken in these months...
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