Rescuers:

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Rescuers

• World War II

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Rescuers

• Dutch and Danish Rescuers

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Danish Dutch Rescuers

• Knub Dyby - Danish
• Louisa Albert Steenstra - Dutch
• Gerrit Van Lochen - Dutch
• Alice Paulus

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Knud Dyby

• Knud Dyby was born in 1915. He became a police
  officer during World War II and saw first-hand
  how cruel the Nazis really were. When Dyby
  overheard a plot to round up all Danish Jews, he
  immediately took action and relocated Jews to a
  safe town in Sweden.

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Louisa Albert Steenstra

• Louisa Steenstra and
• her husband Albert
• sheltered many Jews
• during WWII. When
• someone betrayed their
• secret to the Germans,
• Louisa escaped with
• their daughter. Albert
• and the Jewish man were
• murdered on the spot.

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Gerrit Van Lochen

• Gerrit Van Lochen was born in 1916 in Holland.
  His family sheltered at least five Jewish
  families in their house during World War II.

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Alice Paulus

Alice and her husband, Paul Paulus, were Dutch
rescuers during WWII. They successfully hid a
Jewish couple in there house until the end of the
war. The Paulus even made a hiding place for the
couple under the floor in the kitchen just below
their table. By the end of the war, the two
couples were best friends. Alice Paulus later
said that she considered the wife, Seli Nathan, a
sister.
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Miriam Pinkhof

• By Molly Sender

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Mirijam Pinkhof

• She was born in Holland.
• Mirijam (pronounced Miriam) was born during 1916.
• She was deeply involved in Youth Aliyah.

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Getting Caught!

• In 1944 Mirijam fell into a trap.
• She was put in many different prisons and finally
  ended up in Bergen-Belsen.
• By this time she had become very weak.
• Then she escaped.

• In March of 43 her family had t leave her home
  to go underground.
• Her parents were caught first and put in prison,
  leaving her and her sister to live on their own.

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The Concentration Camps

• In 1944 Mirijam was put into a concentration
  camp. The work was very, very difficult and she
  was afraid that they would shoot her.
• They then sent there to a different camp and she
  spent a year there. She (and everyone else) was
  freed in 1945.

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The Happy Side of It

• In 1945, Mirijam Waterman was married to Menachem
  Pinkhof.
• They were married in Holland and that is how they
  ended the war.

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Rescued

• Mirijam Pnkhof helped rescue about 34 children
  during the war. She said That is a great
  accomplishment for me.
• 34 children were saved because of this wonderful
  woman. She is still living today, and her great
  works are being recorded everywhere.

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Tina Strobos

• By Weikang Sun

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The Holocaust

• The Holocaust was a terrible time for the Jews. 6
  million Jewish deaths, 5 million others, and 2
  million Jews survived. 1 out of 1,000 most people
  did not help, ignored, or even turned people in.

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The invasion

• From 1939 through 1945, Nazi Germany spread
  terror across Europe and Russia. In each country,
  the genocide of Jews and other condemned groups
  followed a different timetable. A Jewish girl
  could still be living in relative freedom in
  Hungary, while her Polish counterpart was on a
  train to Auschwitz.

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Maps of Holland
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Tina Strobos

• Tina Strobos was not quite 20 years old when the
  Nazi army invaded Holland in May, 1940. She was
  living with her mother and a maid in their large,
  comfortable Amsterdam home.

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JOHN DAMSKI

• By Luke Rodriguez

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John Damski
John Damski
Was Born in Germany in 1914 to Polish Parents.
But They Moved Back to Poland After He Was Born .
He Was Excellent at All Sports. In 1939 When
World War II Broke Out He Was Serving in the
Polish Coast Defense Battalion. John damski had
grown up with his best friend was Jewish so he
was enraged when the Jewish people were being
punished by Germany. He was later captured as a
prisoner of war. He escaped at night, he says
that this was not hard at all. He went home and
got a job at a water company. He refused an offer
to work for the Germans so they kicked him out of
town. He later tried to get to France with a
friend but they were caught and put in jail. The
conditions were terrible they had forty five men
in a cell met for eight. After every one in his
cell had been executed he was let out.
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Poland

• This is Poland in 1939
• he lived in Warsaw
• Warsaw is in the middle

WARSAW RIGHT THERE ------gt

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Highlights

• Born in 1914
• saved 5 men AND OTHERS INCLUDING WOULD BE WIFE
• arrested 7 times
• escaped twice
• sent to concentration camp
• rescued by Russians

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John Damski (continued)

• He went on to work for a company with some Jewish
  men he took them away on a trip to get supplies
  and didnt bring them back
• he was almost caught

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Christine

• He rescued a women named Christine and later
  married her

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CHRISTINE DAMSKI

• A PHOTO OF CHRISTENE JOHN DAMSKIS WIFE TAKEN IN
  1946
• he rescued her from Auschwitz

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The Modern Damskis

• The picture was taken 1996 Christine (left) and
  John (right)

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Rescuers of Hungary,Ukraine, and Poland.

• By Elizabeth Rardin

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Barna Kiss Hungary

• BARNA KISS WAS AN OFFICER IN THE HUNGARIAN ARMY
  THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II.

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Barna Kiss

• In 1942 Barna was given command of one of the
  three slave labor battalions. Each had 214 Jewish
  men. His orders were to work them to death.
  Instead he looked after them and made sure they
  were well. When they were sick he got them
  medical help. All 214 men survived.

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Barna Kiss

• Back in Budapest, he rented out apartments and
  hid Jews in them. He was at a great risk when he
  hid the Jews. He died in 1987 at the age of 75.

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Helena and Orest ZahaikiewiczUkraine

• Orest and Helena were students living with their
  father in the Ukrainian city of Peremysl. Edek
  and Eda Scheffeler came to their home in the
  middle of the night in september.

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Orest and Helena

• They looked very terrible. They came to them
  looking for shelter. Edek and Eda stayed there
  hidden until the liberation.

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Alexander Roslan- Poland

• Alexander came from a humble backround. He lived
  in Warsaw in during World War II . He was well
  aware of the horrible situation. He kept 3 Jewish
  Children as his own.He worked hard to save all
  the Jews lives.

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Bert Bochove

• By B.J.

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Bert

• Owned a drugstore in Huizen in 1939.
• A little bit before that, he worked as a mill
  manager in Finland.
• At that time Bert was 29, and engaged to a woman
  named Annie.
• The Germans came over the border into Holland in
  1940

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People saved by Bert

• Bert saved these five Jewish people Yettie, Ab,
  Henny, Wim, and Mia.

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Maps of Holland

• Because of Berts want to be his own boss, he
  borrowed money to buy a drugstore in Huizen.

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Hiding Place

• This is the area where Bert hid the people he
  saved in his store and home.

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Anna Jerry Chulp

• Holocaust rescuers
• By Kyle Vancil

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The Holocaust

• The Holocaust was a terrible time for Jews in
  Germany and the surrounding countries(France,Switz
  erland,Poland,etc.).

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Getting involved

• Many countries helped Jews escape from Germany.
  People who helped Jews risked their lives helping
  prisoners escape from concentration camps.

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Czechoslovakia

• One country Germany invaded was
  Czechoslovakia.Many other countries that bordered
  Czechoslovakia were also invaded by Germany.Soon
  after World war 2 began Germany had taken control
  of most of Europe.

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Anna Jerry Chlup

• Anna Jerry Chulp were rescuers from
  Czechoslovakia. They were born in 1910 and
  1911.Anna met Jerry at the start of World War II.
  They married the same year.

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Anna Jerry Chulps story
The Chulps helped Jews by helping them escape
nearby concentration camps. After they were free
they would hide the escapees in the woods
surrounding their village. After the German
soldiers had left, the Chulps would feed and give
them clothing. Their heroic efforts saved many
Jewish people.
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