Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
ילקוט מורשת
Angaben zur Quelle:
מ (תשמו) 145-160
Keywords:
Grüninger, Paul,
;
Mendes, Aristides de Sousa,
;
Sugihara, Chiune,
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
Abstract:
Relates the activities of three men recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Gentiles - Paul Grüninger, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and Sempo Sugihara. Grüninger was a police captain in charge of the region of St. Gallen in Switzerland who, between August-December 1938, allowed illegal Jewish refugees (ca. 3,600) to remain in Switzerland in defiance of government orders. He also falsified their papers and gave them financial aid. Grüninger was suspended from the police force, tried, and sentenced to a heavy fine, and was never rehabilitated by the Swiss government. He died in 1972. Mendes was the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux who, in May 1940, granted visas to ca. 10,000 Jewish refugees. He was ordered back to Lisbon and suspended from the foreign service. Mendes, too, was never rehabilitated. He died in 1954. Sugihara was the Japanese consul in Kovno who, in August 1940, granted ca. 3,500 transit visas to Polish Jewish refugees. Most of them eventually reached Shanghai. Sugihara was suspended from the foreign service after the war. Although the rescuers' lives were not endangered by helping Jews, they all defied their governments' orders and paid a heavy price for it.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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