Rescuer Janusz Durko, 100 years old
By David Lazarus
Israel Today
The Chief Rabbi of Poland honored 50 elderly Christians who saved Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Calling them “heroes” at the event held in what was the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, the Rabbi expressed “our deepest gratitude to these Righteous Gentiles.”
One of the oldest Christian ladies who had saved Jews from the Nazis was 100-years-old. Others present were already in their 80s and 90s. The event was organized by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), a Jewish group currently providing monthly financial assistance to more than 500 aged and needy Christians who have saved Jews from the Holocaust.
“You are our heroes,” said Stanlee Stahl the JFR executive vice president standing before the elderly group who had saved many Jews from certain death. “It is so important to acknowledge the courage and heroism of the righteous, for each of you saved the honor of humanity,” she told attentive crowd. Click here to continue reading.
Diet Eman (today is in her 90s)
Note: To read the story of Lighthouse Trails author, Diet Eman, who lived in Holland during WW II and was part of a group of Christians who hid and saved Jews, read her book, Things We Couldn’t Say. Diet is a recipient of The Righteous Among the Nations Award.
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