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From Opera Star to Holocaust Hero
A Lithuanian opera tenor, Kipras Petrauskas and his wife gave up their lives and careers to shelter and save the daughter of a Jewish friend and colleague.
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A Question of Human Values
Jerzy and Irena Krepec were Righteous Gentiles in Poland who helped shelter Jews during the Holocaust, and provided these refugees with food, clothing, and love.
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A Doctor and ‘Friend of the Jews’
A Christian psychiatrist sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Dr. Adelaide Hautval cared for and treated the Jewish prisoners housed with her there.
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My Only Light in Vast Darkness: A Tatar Family of Holocaust Heroes
A Tatar mother and daughter in Belarus, Fatima and Aysha saved an entire Jewish family from certain death during the Holocaust.
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The Teacher Who Saved His Jewish Students
Johan Benders was a Dutch teacher who sheltered and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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Righteous Gentiles and the Doctor’s Daughter
Righteous Gentiles Vladimir and Galina Imshennik saved a Jewish girl from the Nazis, raising her as their own.
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Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer – The Beginning of Life
A German Christian and writer, Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer also acted as an anti-Nazi activist during World War II.
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A Mennonite in Nazi-Occupied France
A Mennonite from the U.S. and a French teacher, Lois Gunden rescued many Jewish children in France during the Holocaust.
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Pastor Post and His Righteous Wife and Brothers
Righteous Gentiles Pastor Hendrik "Henk" Post and his wife Harmina worked to save Jewish people and stop the Nazis intent on murdering God's children.
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Saving 40,000 ‘Salvadorans’ from the Holocaust
Jose Castellanos Contreras was a diplomat from El Salvador who provided false visas to tens of thousands of Jews, saving them from the Nazis.
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Like a Son of Her Own
World War II cost a Christian woman in Belarus her husband and sons, but she still did all she could to save a Jewish boy from the Holocaust.
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The First American Righteous Gentile
Varian Fry was an American journalist who ran a rescue network during World War II that saved between 2,000 and 4,000 from death at the hands of the Nazis.
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