Who were some rescuers of the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Miep - Saved the Franks, VanPels, and Fritz Pheffer In Israel those Gentiles who risked their lives to help Jews to escape, survive or avoid the Holocaust are honored as the "Righteous Among the Nations". In all, just over 20,200 people are commenorated in this way. (Do a websearch for "Yad Vashem").

Answer 2

One of the best known survirors is Elie Wiesel, the author of Night. In the books he writes about his time in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and how he lost most of his family.

Other survivors included Otto Frank and Pepi Schreier (oldest surviver, 100), Primo Levi (author), Jean Améry (author), Fania Fénélon (singer and musician).

Among Holocaust heroes who survived are:

• Alexander Pechersky, who - with Leon Feldhandler - led the uprising and mass breakout at Sobibor in October 1943. (Leon Feldhandler did not live to see the end of the war as he was murdered in March 1945).
• Zivia Lubetkin. She fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April1943 and the (larger) Warsaw Uprising of August-September 1944 - and survived both.
• Rudolf Vbra and Alfred Wetzler, who escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944 and compiled a very accurate report on what was happening there. It was this report that finally convinced the Allies that the Nazis were committing genocide at Auschwitz.

Eva Galler

Shep Zitler

Joseph Sher

Isak Borenstein

Jeannie Burk

Answer 3

Some of the more courageous rescuers during the Armenian genocide were the Syrians and other nomadic people throughout the region. There are many cases of Arabs hiding Armenians, or rescuing Armenian children and raising them as their own when their families were slaughtered.

Another notable rescuer was Henry Morganthau, the American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who negotiated with the Ottomans and worked to publicize the atrocities committed against the Armenians.

Answer 4

the rescuers - appears to be a category that is getting increacing interest, they would be people who rescued others, however many rescuers were also victims or perpetrators.

victims - were those who suffered, however again some of the victims were also perpetrators.

perpetrators - were those who inflicted the harm on the victims.

Holocaust Survivor Primo Levi resisted becoming a 'kapo' (a prisoner in charge of other prisoners) because he did not want to enter the 'grey zone' where he says that many of both the victims and perpetrators fell. It was easy to steal (for example) food from fellow prisoners to help one's self survive, but condenming the victim to death, or for a guard to 'look the other way' when a prisoner stole food, both of these fall into the grey zone.

Answer 5

Some jews were rescued by an organization group the jewish organization

Answer 6

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