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Dr. Herman Maas was a Protestant minister, a doctor of theology and a Righteous Gentile. He was born August 5th 1877 and died September 27th 1970.  He helped saved Jews lives during the Holocaust without seeking to gain thereby. He was also a pastor.  He also found jobs for adults, produced legal visas, work permits, and transportation Maas led synagogue prayer services in Heidelberg, cared for the Jewish elderly, and officiated at Jewish weddings and funeral.

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- She did this in Poland with Nazis living close by
- She was a teenager when she did all of this (she was 16)
- She married one of the Jews that she rescued
- She hid the Jews with help from her sister (Helen, who was 9)
- The Jews lived in her attic for two and a half years
- All the Jews she hid survived the war

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As Ursula wrote, “Father Schivo became our protector, our one and only best friend… In every way, endangering his own life, he saved our lives, and he did so time and time again… ” At his seminary in Città di Castello, Father Schivo provided shelter, clothing, and food for the family as well as arrangements for Ursula to continue her schooling.

Monsignor Beniamino Schivo saved his family and himself because he provided clothing food and other needs for his family and himself.

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He risk his career, his family fortune, and the lives of his family to issue visas to Jewish refugees in Lithuania.

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This family helped Michael Shaft hide from the Nazis. Michael escaped from the ghetto and begged for help from the family. They decided to let him in. He stayed in a hayloft for 2 years, but one day polish nationalists broke into the house and took Michael to kill him. Luckily he escaped. He later returned to live with the Suchodolskis. On July 15th 1975 Yad Vashem awarded the family the name: Righteous among the nations

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Gertruda Babilinska a very young women that helped a very wealthy Jewish family, after having the father sent to Auschwitz. Was told by the mother of Mickey, that she would take Mickey if she became ill or died. After Mickey's mother died, Gertruda took in Mickey as her own and took care of him. Than she saved him taking him to Israel.

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spoke against the Nazi party and witnes the excution of the jew and employed as many as he could

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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat. With the authorization of the Swedish government and help of the War Refugee Board (WRB), he distributed certificates of protection to Jews. Wallenberg intervened many times to insure the release and safety of Jewish people with a certification of protection. With funds from the WRB and the Swedish government he created soup kitchens, homes, and hospitals, forming the "international ghetto." The international ghetto was reserved for Jews in need of protection. Wallenberg saved thousands with his heroic and great efforts.

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-rescued and sheltered many Jews
-rescuer and righteous gentile
-professor, priest and highly respected scholar
-He hid the Jews in his own basement and gave them fake names and ID's so they could hide

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Johan Benders was a Dutch school teacher who was angered by the the Nazis. He decided he wanted to help the Jews. During class Johan would teach and urge students to make fake rations, and identities for Jews who needed it. He also housed two Jewish sisters in his house who were ex students of his. In 1943 Johan was betrayed by his neighbor and was sent to a prison for housing Jews. He committed suicide because he did not want to risk letting the Nazis know the amount of people and the identity of the people who he helped. After the death of Johan, Johan's wife continued to provide refuge for Jews.

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Irena Sendler was a polish humanitarian and social worker. She had rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland.  Sendler started offering Jews shelter and food as soon as the Germans invaded Warsaw which was in 1939. After the Warsaw ghetto was created, in 1940, she had started saving orphan children. She and some of her helpers made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families. Her and her helpers used five ways to smuggle children out of the Ghetto. The first way was that she used an ambulance and the children would be snuck out on the stretcher. Another way was that they would escape through a courthouse that had a secret underground entrance in it. They also snuck children using sewer pipes or other secret underground passages. She and her helpers used a trolley to sneak out children in sacks, in a trunk, or a suitcase. Also, if a child pretended to be sick or the child would have actually been sick, they could legally remove them from the ghetto with the ambulance.

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Cornelia Blaauw was the director of nursery in Harlem and she let many Jews hide with her. A Jewish nurse who she had been in contact with asked her if she could hide with her 7 year old nephew Nico who was Jewish. There was a big risk in doing this at the end of the war Nico's parents never showed and she decided to adopt him.

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she had saved the young daughter of her physician Dr. Kuti Nevo she took the daughter to many villages as a gypsy at first. She ended up hiding in a cellar with her husband and the infant in fear that someone would expose them. She then showed the parents of the child documents to send the child off to a family that lived in a small village near the Slovakian border. And whenever the family needed food stamps or fake documents she would provide them with things.

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"-On 17 June a production line was set up, at which he issued 30,000 visas, passports and travel documents. (After two days at the consul, Sousa Mendes continued at the border towns of Bayonne and Hendaye until stopped on 23 June.)" He offered 30,000 visas which is amazing which admitted 12,000 jews to portugal to save their lives he later said, " I've decided to be faithful to that principle, but I shan't resign for all that. The only way I can respect my faith as a Christian is to act in accordance with the dictates of my conscience."

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She hid Jews so they weren't arrested. Because of this action she was arrested and sent to concentration camp. She did what she did because she was part of a church that went against what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. During and before the war the Ten Boom family had been part of the resistance effort. Corries grandpa tried to improve relations with Jews. Her brother ran a nursing home for people of all faiths. Their family would hide Jews or help Jews find a place to

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-Helped 2000 people escape.
-He was a big journalist that wrote a lot about jewish segregation and prosecution
-First American to be named a Richuse gentile
Was a American journalist that established a new organization. He later got kicked out because he was in trouble with the feds, in France.

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- he was the spiritual leader of the Protestant congregation in France.
- when the deportations started in 1942 in France, he wanted his congregation to give shelter to "the people of the Bible."
- he would not let any of his people go and said that they came to him for shelter, and he would not give up on them.

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Oskar Schindler  was a German industrialist who saved the lives of over 1000 Jews. He owned Nazi factors and saved Jewish live by asking for more Jewish workers. The Jewish workers that he asked for were going to be executed but saved them by having them work. He kept on asking for more Jewish workers and save thousands of lives.

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He lived in North Holland, and when the Germans occupied Holland Johannes took a train to the only Jewish family he knew and offered them a hiding spot on his farm. Through the Mogendorffs he found more Jews and offered them the hiding spot too. He created a rescue network that housed around 70 Jewish people. He operated without organizational support for one and a half years. In 1942 the farm was raided and 11 Jews were deported. Johannes Father went to Amstelveenseweg prison in Amsterdam and only had a 10 week sentence if he promised to not hide anymore Jews. He couldn't promise. Another raid occured and found the rest of the people on the farm. Although Hannes and Klaasje Bogaard were fugitives themselves, they survived the war. During the course of the occupation Hannes helped around 200 Jews survive.

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Ángel Sanz Briz was a Spanish diplomat who served under Francoist Spain during World War II. Angel offered to give Jews of Spanish origin Spanish passports.  Hungarian authorities gave him the OK to issue Spanish passports to 200 Jews, but he secretively changed that figure to 200 families.  He also set up special apartment buildings with Spanish flags, marking these buildings as part of the Spanish Legation and therefore protected, to house Jews because no one would suspect that there are Jews in there.  Since those Jews staying in the “Spanish Houses” were forbidden from leaving the buildings, he also provided them with food and other necessities. Throughout Angels tie he saved about 5,000 Jews and died in 1980.

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- Stefania would sneak into the ghetto to bring her friends food
- Stefania hid 13 Jews without receiving any extra money from others for it
- She helped some Jews escape the ghettos
- She hid the Jews in her attic
- She did this in Poland with Nazis living close by
- She was a teenager when she did all of this (she was 16)
- She married one of the Jews that she rescued
- She hid the Jews with help from her sister (Helen, who was 9)
- The Jews lived in her attic for two and a half years
- All the Jews she hid survived the war