[SuziQ]

One of my husband's major professors in his Graduate Studies was one of those children. He is Polish, and his parents realized what was happening and tried to get the family out. They realized that they could not leave with the children, because they would be stopped and probably sent to a camp. They went to a local convent and asked the nuns if they could keep their son until they could return for him. The nuns agreed immediately, so Naftali spent his years from age 5 to 11 hidden by the nuns.

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.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

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.