Posted on 07/01/2018 2:16:07 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Princess Alice von Battenberg was born in 1885 in Windsor Castle in England, and was deaf from birth. After marrying the Greek Prince Andrew in 1903, she lived in Greece until the expulsion of the Greek royal family in 1917. In 1930, Alice was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was hospitalized in a sanatorium in Switzerland for two years.
During World War II she lived in Athens, where she helped hide Jews from the Nazis. In 1994, 24 years after her death in 1969, she received the title of Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem.
After the war, she remained in Greece, where she founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns called the "Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary." After the overthrow of King Constantine II of Greece and the military coup of 1967, she was invited by her son Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II of England, to live with them at Buckingham Palace in London, where she passed away. In 1988, her bones were transferred, at her request, to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
In September, 1943, when Athens was conquered by the Nazis following Italy's surrender, the persecution of Greek Jews began. During the Nazi occupation there were thousands of Jews in Athens who sought refuge from the Gestapo, which deported 60,000 of the 75,000 Greek Jews to concentration camps. As this was happening, Alice hid the Jewish widow Rachel Cohen, along with two of her five children.
Last Wednesday during his visit to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home, Prince William met with the descendants of Haim and Rachel Cohen, whose family members - among them Eve Cohen, Rachel Cohen's granddaughter - were saved by Princess Alice.
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Nice to see more publicity for Princess Alice, a fine Christian woman who overcame many obstacles to do a great deal of good.
The publicity isn’t for Alice. There’s something else going on.
Oh, there’s always something else going on.
Here’s an interesting piece of history I received this a.m. that some may find interesting about a Jewish man who lived in Japan during WWII - Jewish Man Who Survived in Axis-era Japan. A different perspective the Japanese had toward them in WW2.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-man-who-survived-world-war-ii-in-axis-era-japan/
British royal families hatch a lot of useful idiots. And the world often ends up paying the price for their idiocy.
That’s true. Are you saying Princess Alice was a “useful idiot” who harmed the world?
Or you can read FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3667298/posts
The Jewish man who survived World War II in Axis-era Japan
Thank you. I didn’t realize it was already a thread!! Sorry for the repeat.
Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed reading it.
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