Posted on 03/23/2013 2:14:17 PM PDT by the scotsman
He remembered them as being very kind, but firm, and when, happily, his parents returned for him after the war, the sisters were extremely sad to see him go. He is very grateful to those nuns who truly did risk their lives to save him and the other Jewish children hidden with him.
Soros didn’t escape—he collaborated. That soul was sold a long time ago.
I believe it is available on iTunes.
Soros was not damaged by others. He was a teenager who made a conscious choice to betray his Jewish family members and neighbors to the NAZIs for his own material gain. He damaged himself. Putrid evil.
I’d never heard of this before. I just googled it, and it sounds like an intense and amazing cinematic experience. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thank you. I had a coworker in Switzerland whose dad, before he was born, had been a Swiss “Schindler” and gotten German Jews hired in his company in Switzerland. There are almost as many hero stories as evil stories about the Holocaust. Nuns, priests, all kinds of people risked their lives to save, hide, and smuggle people out. One family I know was put aboard a freight train to Spain to make it to the Americas. The employee who got them out was caught and he (a Christian) was sent to a concentration camp himself.
I love that museum. I cried all the way through it. The book they made is excellent too: “the world must know.” Worth buying.
Our family friend Joan was a child in Poland who was taken in by a Christian family and given a Christian identity which protected her during the war.
She told of seeing her parents across the street (they also adopted Christian identities), but she could not even acknowledge them for fear of betraying them.
Fortunately they survived the war and came to America where they became successful professionals. We’ve been babysitting Joan’s plants for a while when she had to go on a trip.
Another late friend, Stefan Korbonski, was the leader of the Polish Free Army who fought the Nazis during WW2. He was also responsible for smuggling arms to the Warsaw Ghetto resistance for which he was honored by Israel as a “Righteous Gentile”.
The stories of Jewish children saved by Christians during WW2 is one of the most encouraging signs of Christian morale courage during WW2.
Would that woman be Doctor Ruth Westheimer?
no, I didn’t write it.
I’m aware they’re real. Been to Auschwitz.
Dr. Elsbeth Gehorsam. How intersting that there might be a parallel story ..
Sorry, Memphis TN
My husbands cousin was Dr Elsbeth Gehorsam who came to specialize in treating severe mental conditions, such as psychosis and schizophrenia. Dr Elsbeth was a young woman, already a medical student, when she left Germany. A German sub surfaced and searched the ship for refugees. She was determined to jump overboard if they identified her. Thank heaven they did not and she arrived safely in the United States. She had a practice in Memphis but traveled all over the Southern US on consults. Never lost her very pronounced German accent. :-)
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