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The moving stories of27 ordinarypeople who were awarded the Heroes of the Holocaust medal for their actions protecting Jews from Nazi persecution In March 2010,27 Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognized as Heroes of the Holocaust by the British Government. The silver medal, inscribed with the words "In the Service of Humanity," was created to acknowledge those "whose selfless actions preserved life in the face of persecution." Some of the recipients, like Frank Foley, a British spy whose cover was working at the British embassy in Berlin, took huge risks issuing forged visas to enable around 10,000 Jews to escape Germany before the outbreak of war. Others, like the10 POWs who hid and cared for Hannah Sarah Rigler as she escaped from a death march, showed great humanity in the face of horrendous cruelty and suffering. All the recipients of the award were ordinary people, acting on no one's authority but their own, who found they could not stand idly by in the face of this great evil.Collected herefor the first time arethe remarkable stories of the medal'srecipients, a movin

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Author

Smith, Lyn, 1934-

Publisher

Ebury Press; Ebury Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780091940676

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14