Dear Jan and others,
I have not had an opportunity to get to the museum yet....
what did spark my interest
was this web-site: remember.org/forgotten/kidnaped.html
I invite you to visit and read what one man has to say about how
he was kidnapped, sent to work in a slave labor camp, and then
spent years in a dp camp.? Since this is a story very similar to what
happened to my family, I have no hesitation about standing shoulder
to shoulder with Mr. Wardzala and the other Poles who are registered,
and sharing my family history at the museum.
This, of course, is what feels right for me.......
I think that Jan mentioned that there is a section titled The Righteous
Among the Nations, I just found this - the Jews actually do credit the
Poles!
Yad Vashem - The Righteous Among the Nations
Number of Holocaust Rescuers by Country* and Ethnic Origin
As of January 1, 2001
The Yad Vashem museum in Israel, founded in 1953, honors both Holocaust martyrs and "the Righteous Among the Nations," Gentile (non-Jewish) rescuers who have been recognized for their "compassion, courage and morality" because they "risked their lives to save the lives of Jews." Poland ranks first among 40 nations with 5,503 men and women, almost one-third of the total, despite the fact that only in Poland were citizens (and their loved ones) immediately executed if caught trying to save Jews.
Many prominent Jews and their families owe their lives to these brave but rarely acknowledged people. For example, Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith/USA, was saved by a Polish Catholic nanny who had him baptized as a Catholic and began raising him as her son in order to save him. - Edward Lucaire
