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** This makes it more awesome was the fact that Sugihara never boasted about his accomplishments once. When an Israeli delegation came to his house to honor him for his actions (Many of them carrying visas Suihara has issued decades ago), all of his neighbors were stunned since they all thought he was just another typical Japanese salaryman.
* Rabbi Daniel Mowshowitz, who was the Rabbi of Kelm. The Nazis took all of the Jews of Kelm out into the forest, lined them up in front of a pit, and were about to shoot them when Rabbi Mowshowitz asked the Nazi commander [[Last Request| if he can say a few words to his flock]]. The commander gave permission, but to make it quick. The rabbi turned to the assembled Jews and calmly delivered a lecture about Sanctifying God's Name, all the while the Nazis were getting impatient and yelling at him to get on with it. Finally he would up, "Here we are now in the situation that I spoke about a moment ago, meaning, kiddush Hashem [sanctification of God's Name]. Therefore, don't panic; we must accept the decree calmly." And Rabbi Mowshowitz turned to the Nazi commander and said, "I have finished. You can begin."
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_G%C3%B6ring Albert Göring] [[Does This Remind You of Anything|Does the name sound familiar?]] It does. He's Hermann Göring's brother. One time, he was reported to have joined a group of Jewish women that were forced to scrub the street; when the SS officer, who was in charge, discovered Göring's name after inspecting his identification, was unwilling to see Hermann Göring's brother getting publicly humiliated and ordered them to cease scrubbing. Albert then uses his influence to get his Jewish former boss, Oskar Pilzer, freed after the Nazis arrested the latter. Then helped Pilzer and his family escape from Germany. Albert is reported to have done the same for other dissidents. He then intensified his anti-Nazi activity when he became export director at the Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia. Here, he encouraged minor acts of sabotage and had contact with the Czech resistance. Many occasions, Göring then forges his brother's signature on transit documents to enable dissidents to escape. When he was caught, he used his brother's influence again to get himself released. Göring also sent trucks to Nazi concentration camps with requests for labor. These trucks then stop in an isolated area and their secret passengers would be allowed to escape.
* Irena Sendler was basically the unsung hero of the Holocaust, before a group of students from Kansas brought her story to light after learning about her from a magazine clipping. A member of the Polish Underground and resistance movement called Zegota, she rescued and found shelter for 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Eventually, she was found out, arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death. Fortunately, Żegota members manages to bribe German guards into letting her go on the way to her execution, and lives to fight another day. In 2007, Sendler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize but lost to Al Gore.
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