Rescue

Rescue

  • Lawyer William Perl

    Lawyer William Perl
    He was the leader of a rescue group and that rescue group sent thousands of Jews in small boats to Palestine for safety.
  • Evian Conference

    Evian Conference
    This was a conference where 32 countries got together to discuss the refugee and immigration problems.
  • Evian Conference

    Evian Conference
    This was a conference where 32 countries got together to discuss the refugee and immigration problems.
  • Nicholas Duhr

    Nicholas Duhr
    He was in charge of paramilitary groups and during those times he helped rescue thousands of Jews and other races by giving them fake identities.
  • Barna Kiss

    Barna Kiss
    He was an officer and was in charge of a slave labor battalion where he was supposed to work Jews to death but instead he saved them and bathed their feet and gave medical attention to the sick.
  • Gilat Brothers

    Gilat Brothers
    Alexander Roslan took in 3 Jewish children the Gilat brothers and risked his own families lives by doing so.
  • Louisa and Albert Steenstra

    Louisa and Albert Steenstra
    The couple rented a house to let Jews stay in a few at a time in a hiding place they thought could never be found but a Dutch couple betrayed them to the Germans. Louisa and daughter escaped but her husband and Dutch man Emanuel Marcus were murdered on the spot.
  • Martial Law

    Martial Law
    German officers forced martial law on Denmark because of all of the resisting and all the people helping Jews escape them.
  • German Warns Danish

    German Warns Danish
    A German man warned the Danish about what German officers had planned to do with martial law in October 1943.
  • Planned Nights of Martial Law

    Planned Nights of Martial Law
    This is the night the Germans had planned to deport the Jews while martial law was in place.
  • Rescue of Danish Jewry

    Rescue of Danish Jewry
    During these months the Danish formed a rescue group to where a Danish man would ship Jews in small boats to neutral Sweden. They shipped about 7,200 Jews during this time.
  • Planned Nights of Martial Law

    Planned Nights of Martial Law
    This is the night the Germans had planned to deport the Jews while martial law was in place.
  • Rescue of Danish Jewry

    Rescue of Danish Jewry
    During these months the Danish formed a rescue group to where a Danish man would ship Jews in small boats to neutral Sweden. They shipped about 7,200 Jews during this time.
  • Lutz Protective Letters

    Lutz Protective Letters
    Lutz talked to Nazi’s and got them to allow him to issue 8,000 protective letters to Hungarian Jews for emigration to Palestine when really Lutz meant families but the Nazi’s thought just 8,000 people so in the end there were tens of thousands letters sent and 8,000 families were rescued.