Home of the brave: (Dallas) Family that hid Jews from Nazis to be honored

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 4, 2002 | By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News

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[Guenevere]

This is an excellent, & encouraging post!!
Thanks!

I've often wondered if Corrie ten Boom & her family are on this Righteous List.....

Does anyone know?

Her elderly father, sister & Corrie, plus in-laws & nephews helped hide in their own home & also spirit away Jews to safe places, and eventual freedom.

Someone later found out, and turned them in......and the father, sister died in prison/concentration camp......the young nephew was killed, and Corrie spent a number of years at Ravensbruck, but was finally freed (on a technicality, it seemed----other women her age were gassed the next week)

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For anyone that hasn't read The Diary of Anne Frank, it is a really good book on this very subject. I read it back in the late 60s I believe.

"We're much too young to deal with these problems, but they keep
thrusting themselves on us until, finally, we're forced to think up a solution,
though most of the time our solutions crumble when faced with the facts.
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise
within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't
abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling
to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly
good at heart.

"...And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will
change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and
tranquility will return once more. In the meantime, I must hold on to my
ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll be able to realize them!

– From Anne's diary, July 15, 1944
http://www.annefrank.com/

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Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish
teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the
Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others,
spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms
above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and
the others living with them were arrested and deported to
Nazi concentration camps. Nine months after she was
arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus in March of 1945 at
Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.

Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s
helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her
diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of
the most widely read books in the world.

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A hinged bookcase at the rear of the
office wall was all that separated
the Secret Annex from the outside
world.
Arrest and Deportation

At approximately 10 am, August 4, 1944, the Frank family's
greatest fear came true. A Nazi policeman and several Dutch
collaborators appeared at 263 Prinsengracht, having
received an anonymous phone call about Jews hiding there,
and headed straight for the bookcase leading to the Secret Annex.

Karl Joseph Silberbauer, an Austrian Nazi, forced the
residents to turn over all valuables. When he found out
that Otto Frank had been a lieutenant in the German Army
during World War I, he was a little less hostile. The
residents were taken from the house, forced into a covered
truck, taken to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration,
and then to Weteringschans Prison.

Two of the helpers, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman,
were also imprisoned for their role in hiding the family.
Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl were not arrested, although Miep
was brought in for questioning by the police.