The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (63 page)

Mironiuk, Sawko: saves a Jew

Mirow (Poland): water brought from

Misiuna, Wladislaw: his courageous act

Miskolc (Hungary): an act of rescue in; a ‘miracle’ in

Mitrani-Andreoli family: give shelter to a Jewish boy

Mizhantz (eastern Poland): a Jew finds shelter in

Mizocz (eastern Poland): slaughter in, and an act of rescue; and a Righteous German

Mkrtchyan, Arakel: saves two Jews

Mkrtchyan, Vartan: saves Jews, but later killed in action

Modena (Italy): a Jewish boy given refuge in

Modlin (Poland): survival in

Modra (Slovakia): Jewish children given refuge in

Mogilevskyi family: in hiding

Momignies (Belgium): two Jewish boys given sanctuary in

Moncalieri (Italy): a Jewish family given refuge in

Monowitz (East Upper Silesia):
see
Buna-

Monowitz Mons (Belgium): and a Jewish girl in hiding

‘Monsieur Albert’: an assumed identity

Mont César (Belgium): rescue work at

Montauban (France): a defiant French engine driver at; an energetic cyclist at

Monte Subasio (Italy): an escape to safety at

Montefalco (Italy): Jews given refuge in

Mopty, Pierre: helps Jews escape

Morand, Joseph and Leonie: rescuers

Moreali, Giuseppe: an Italian rescuer

Morgan, Keith: records a story of rescue

Mornet, Professor Daniel: a rescuer

Morpurgo, Marcello: rescued, in Italy, with his family

Moscow (Soviet Union): Wallenberg taken to

Moscow Declaration (1943): and Austria

Moser, Rudl: an Austrian rescuer

Moses: saved, xv–xvi; and a Dutch baby saved in a basket

Moskalik, Krystyna: a rescuer

Mostar (Bosnia): an escape to

Mother Maria:
see
Skobtsova, Elizabeth

motivation: and rescue

Motor Vehicle Repair Park (Vilna): and a German rescuer

Motzko, Bruno: a rescuer

Mount Zion (Jerusalem): and Oskar Schindler, xv

‘Moustache’ (a German soldier): his cruelty

Mozes, Gustel: finds refuge in Holland

Muchman, Beatrice and Henri: given safe haven

Mulder, Marguerite: a Dutch rescuer

Müller, Heinrich: persuaded to let fourteen Jews leave Germany; two protests to, about Italian refusal to share German view of ‘the Jewish question’

Munkacs (Hungary): a Jewish boy saved in

Munnik, Albert: and his new ‘son’

Munnik, Nora: ‘my new…“sister”’

Munnik, Violette: a rescuer, in Holland

Murt, Mother Marie-Angélique: a rescuer

Muslims: save Jews, xvi; help Jews

Mussolini, Benito: his anti-Jewish laws; a German protest to, about ‘pro-Jewish zeal’ of Italian officials in France; overthrown

Musya (a Jewish woman): saved

Mylner, Gitele: saved

Myrtle (a Norwegian woman): helps Jews

Myto (Czechoslovakia): Jewish children smuggled to

Naef, Roesli: protects Jewish children

Nagy, Laszlo: helps provide shelter

Nakonieszny, Jan: hides five Jews

Naktiel, Alida: finds a refuge for her child

Naktiel, Siny: found a safe haven

Namur (Belgium): refuge in a monastery in; Jews hidden in

Nansen, Odd: helps Jews escape

Naples (Italy): Allies land south of

Napoleon Square (Cracow): and a blackmail note

Natalia (a Jewish woman): saved in Warsaw

National Agency for Children (Belgium): the director of, saves many Jewish children

Naumiestis (Lithuania): a Jewish girl saved in

Nazi Party: a member of, unwittingly employs a Jew; a member of, helps Jews

Nazi-Soviet Pact (August 1939): and Eastern Galicia

Nek, Sister Felicja: saves a Jewish girl

Nel (a Dutch woman): helps hide a Jewish girl

Neofit of Vidin: protests

Neri, Emilio: saves Jews, in Salonika

Netherlands, the:
see
Holland

Neuengamme concentration camp: a rescuer dies in

Neugraben (near Hamburg): and ‘good people’ near a slave labour camp

Neumann, Dr Ziga: a refugee from Zagreb, hidden in Italy

Nèvejean, Yvonne: saves many Jewish children

New Jersey (USA): a gathering in, to commemorate a rescuer

New York: ‘Hidden Children’ gather in, xvi; a reunion in; help for rescuers from; a survivor in; seven orphaned children, previously in hiding, reach, Photo

New York Times
: and a report on a Belgian rescuer; and a rescuer commemorated; and the reunion between a father and son

Niccaci, Father Rufino: saves Jews in Assisi

Nice (France): safe haven in, disrupted

Nicholls, Stephen: records Righteous acts in Pomerania

Nickel, Maria: her Righteous act

Nicolai (a Russian prisoner of war): in hiding

Nicolini, Bishop of Assisi: saves Jews

Nieuwlande (Holland): Jewish children from Amsterdam found hiding places in

Nieuw Vennep (Holland): a rescuer in

Nilsen, Pastor: helps Jews

Nisenbaum, Maria: given shelter

Nitsch, Mathilda: helps Jews to escape

Noble, Tommy: helps save a Jewish girl

Nojar, Mieczyslaw: saved

Nonantola (Italy): Jewish refugee children given refuge in; Jewish children taken to Switzerland from

Normandy Landings (1944):

North Sea: Jews smuggled across

Norway: round-ups in, xix; acts of rescue in

Norwegian Lutheran Church: bishops of, protest

Norwegian Resistance: helps Jews; thanked

Novel (France): a crossing point into Switzerland

Novozybkov (Russia): nine Jews saved in

Nowacka, Helena: hidden with her baby son

Nowak, Felicja: given refuge

Nowak, Ludwig and Aniela: their act of rescue

Nowogrodek (eastern Poland): escapees from, rescued

Nowy Dwor (Poland): the fate of a priest in; a German helps a Jewish girl reach

Nozyk Synagogue (Warsaw): the cantor of, rescued on a Death March

Nunspeet (Holland): rescuers in

Nuovo (Pesaro, Italy): a hiding place at

Nuremberg Trials: a German witness at

Oberlungwitz (Germany): a ‘righteous man’ in

O’Brien, Agnes: receives an award for her sister

Occupied Zone (of France):; Jews smuggled out of

Ocskay, Captain Laszlo: saves Jews, in Budapest

Odler, Szaje: given sanctuary, then murdered

Oegstgeest (Holland): a Jewish girl in hiding in

Oesterweiler (a Jew): saved by a German

Olczak, Genowefa (Genia): a rescuer

‘Old Testaments’: and French defiance

Old Town (Warsaw): Jews hidden in

Oliner, Samuel: finds refuge; reflects on the altruistic behaviour of the Righteous

Olsza (a suburb of Cracow): and a rescuer

Olszewicz, Moishe: saved

Oolbekking, Hein and Jeanne: hide a Jewish girl

Opalka, Mr: provides false identity papers

Opdyke, Irene Gut: helps Jewish women

Opinja
(‘Opinion’): a Jewish newspaper

Oppenheim, Dr A. N.: seeks recognition for a British woman

Oradour-sur-Glane (France): rescue and destruction at

Orange (France): and an assumed identity

Order of St Basil: nuns of, shelter three Jewish boys

Orlender, Zygmund: given shelter, with his sister

Orsi, Hermine: hides Jews

Oster, Colonel: helps a Righteous German

Ostrog (eastern Poland): a Jewish family saved in; and a Righteous German

Ostrowiak, Anna: recalls two ‘decent’ German soldiers; recalls acts of kindness

Ott, Emma: helps shelter Jewish children

Otter, Baron Göran von: passes on details of mass murder

Ottignies (Belgium): a school in, saves twenty Jewish children; two more Jewish children given sanctuary in

Otwock (near Warsaw): a nun keeps a ‘terrible secret’ at

Our Lady of Zion Convent (Rome): shelters more than a hundred Jews

Ovart, Madame: her courage, and her fate

Overduijn, Leendert: a Dutch pastor, and rescuer, heads a rescue organization

Ozhenitsa (Poland): a Jew seeks refuge in

Paasche, Joachim: and his wife’s defiance

Padrabé (Lithuania): rescuers in

Page, Anthony: directs a film about a rescuer

Pais, Dr Abraham: his release secured

Pajewski, Teodor: helps a Jewish historian

Palatucci, Giovanni: helps five hundred Jews, then sent to Dachau

Palazzini, Pietro (later Cardinal): saves Jews in Rome

Paldiel, Mordecai: and a Lithuanian rescuer; and Polish rescuers; and German rescuers; and a German rescuer in Holland; and a German rescuer in Poland; and the rescuers of Albania; and a ‘turning point’ in Roman Catholic attitudes; and a French rescuer; and the people of Le Chambon; his own rescuer; and a Belgian village; and a Belgian boarding school; and a Dutch rescuer; and a Hungarian rescuer; and Raoul Wallenberg; and an Italian rescuer, in Budapest; reflects on the behaviour of the Righteous; and the ‘moral duty’ of honouring the rescuers; and the ‘bright and shining side of man’

Palestine (British Mandate): a pre-war visit to; a post-war visit to; those rescued make their way to; those on way to, smuggled into Italy; certificates for, sent to Vittel; pioneers training for, smuggled out of Holland; pioneer training for, in Italy; a list of approved immigrants to

Palmnicken (Baltic Sea): massacre and rescue at

Palomba, Umberto: helps a Jewish refugee family in Italy

Panazol (France): a safe haven in

Paniowce Zielone (Eastern Galicia): a Jewish boy in hiding in

Pan-Jun-Shun: a rescuer

Pap family: give sanctuary, in Holland

Papal Nuncio (Zagreb): intervenes

Papo, Mira: given refuge

Papo, Salomon: deported from hospital

Parankova (Lithuania): ‘noble souls’ in

Paris (France): deportations to Auschwitz from; Jewish children hidden near; a Jewish child hidden in; a round-up in; an arrest in; a rescuer in; a train ticket from

Parysow (Poland): three Jewish sisters from, given sanctuary

Paskeviciene, Jolanta: tells the story of Lithuanian rescuers

Passover: and the Righteous, xv; and Jews in hiding; and a precious manuscript

The Password Is Courage
(film): and a Righteous British soldier

Pataky, Dr Arnold: provides sanctuary for Jews

Patoux, Juliette and Gaston: save a Jewish girl

Patras (Greece): Jews of, saved

Paukstis, Father Bronius: saves Jews

‘Pauline’: a less Jewish name

Pauvlavicius, Jan: rescues Jews; murdered for saving Jews

Pavel and Katia (a Jewish couple): given shelter

‘Pavlovnia, Kristian’: an assumed name

Pawiak Prison (Warsaw): a rescuer incarcerated in; a ‘decent Gentile’ in

Pawlicka, Janina: gives sanctuary

Payot, Abbé André: helps Jews

Pecs (Hungary): a deportation from

Peiper, Hanka: in hiding

Peleg, David: given sanctuary, in Budapest

Peltew River (Lvov): and a sewer hiding place

Penraat, Jaap: smuggles Jews out of Holland

Pentecostal movement: helps Jews in Norway

People’s Army (Armia Ludowa): helps Jews

Père Jacques: a rescuer

Peres, Shimon: his father the colleague of a British rescuer

Peresika (eastern Poland): Jews helped in

Perlasca, Giorgio (Jorge): in charge of Spanish safe houses in Budapest; issues protective documents; obtains release of threatened Jews; remains in Budapest; Photo

Perski, Yitzhak: works with a Righteous British sergeant

Perugia (Italy): arrested Jews taken to, rescue in

Pesaro (Italy): liberation in

Peshev, Dimiter: opposes deportations from Bulgaria

Pessah, Rabbi: obtains shelter for 752 Jews

Pétain, Marshal: collaborates; a protest to; religious feelings of, ‘irreconcilable’ with deportation; a supporter of, becomes a rescuer

Peterfy, Ida: her acts of rescue

Petrenko, Natalya and Antonina: hide two Jewish escapees

Petrowski, Vasilien: saves eighteen Jews

Petrykiewicz, Maria and Wanda: Austrian rescuers

Pfannschmidt, Joachim: hides a Jewish woman

Pharaoh: his daughter’s courage, xv–xvi

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): a ‘legendary’ Righteous Pole visits

Piatigorsk (Russia): two Jews hidden in

Picot family: save two Jewish girls

Pieris (Italy): Jews find refuge in

Pietromarchi, Count: reports ‘brutal measures’ of Germans and Italian ‘safeguard’

Pietrusiewicz, Mr: a rescuer

Piglowska, Sister Blanka: helps hide a Jewish girl

Piguet, Anne-Marie Imhof: helps Jewish children escape to Switzerland

Piguet, Bishop Gabriel: approves rescue

Pilica (Poland): a rescuer and her child executed in

Pinczewska, Alicja: saved; at her First Communion, Photo

Pionki concentration camp (German-occupied Poland): escapees from, given shelter; ‘friendly’ Germans in

Piotrkow (Poland): acts of rescue in

Pitter, Premysl: helps Jews

Pius XII, Pope: Germans protest at Christmas message of

Piwnicza (southern Poland): Jews helped to escape through

Place du Chatelain (Brussels): a final act of rescue in

Placzek family: save Jews

Plagge, Major Karl: a German rescuer; reflects on his motivation

Plaszow concentration camp (German-occupied Poland):; a factory in, under benign control; sadism at; a second factory in, under benign control; evacuation from; a Polish ‘benefactor’ in

Platteau, Léon: helps Jews

Pleyber-Christ (France): a Jewish girl finds refuge in

Plomnik family: their daughter in hiding

Plovdiv (Bulgaria): and a churchman’s protest

Pludy (near Warsaw): Jewish children hidden at

Pochet, Maurice and Maria: hide a Jew

Podgorska, Stefania: a teenage rescuer

Podhajce (Eastern Galicia): Jews from, rescued

Podoszyn, Jozef and Anna: hidden

Pogany, Gyorgy: in hiding in Italy

Pohlmann, Lili: taken to safety; saved, by a German rescuer