Escaping to survive during the Holocaust

By: Selena Robinson

http://www.mjhnyc.org/exhibitions_special.htm

The Frank family

http://arjunpuri.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the-frank-familymargot-otto-anne-and-edith-frank-on-merwedeplein-in-amsterdam-1941.jpg

http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/pic/dutch12.jpg

“In the hiding

place, no

outside light

penetrated.”

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/annefrank.html

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007738

In Le

Chambon-Sur-

Lignon,

France, about

3,000 to

5,000 Jews

were

sheltered and

rescued.

The Unitarians giving clothing to those who needed it.

http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/collections/digital/service_committee.html

Rescuers came from

every

religious background.

Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Muslim all helped to save Jews.

Hugh O’Flaherty. A priest who saved about 4,000 Jews and Allied Soldiers in Rome.

http://listverse.com/2008/11/06/10-people-who-saved-jews-during-world-war-two/

A false baptism certificate for Joseph Taler.

http://josephtaler.com/holocaust_studies.html

http://josephtaler.com/holocaust_studies.html

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Gave visas to over 30,000 refugees.

http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/List_of_people_who_assisted_Jews_during_the_Holocaust