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Authors: Martin Gilbert

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Czestochowa (Poland): help for Jews in; acts of kindness in

Czortkow (Eastern Galicia): a journey to

Czystylow labour camp (Eastern Galicia): and the rescue of a Jewish child

Dabrowa (Poland): a young child in hiding in

Dabrowica (Poland): a Jew from, rebuffed

Dachau concentration camp (near Munich): a rescuer sent to; a Righteous pastor sent to; a priest dies on the way to; a French Bishop imprisoned in; a survivor of; a rescuer and resister dies in; a Dutch rescuer sent to; an Italian rescuer perishes in; an act of kindness in

Daley, Robert: told of French rescue efforts

Damaskinos, Archbishop: orders Jews to be hidden

Dambrauskas, Father: saves Jews

Danieli, Dan (Denes Faludi): saved, with his family

Danielsson, Carl Ivar (Swedish diplomat): helps Jews in Budapest

Danilowicz, Teresa: shelters two Jews

Danish-Swedish Refugee Service: helps Danish Jews escape

Dankiewicz (a Pole): hides a Jewish woman in a stove

Dante’s
Inferno
: a scene from

Danube River: executions on banks of

Danzig (Free City of): British prisoners of war working near, save a Jewish girl

Darcissac, Roger: a rescuer

Darmstadt (Germany): a ‘Jew-lover’ forced to leave

Daughters of Charity (Asse): and a final act of rescue

Dauman, Joseph: rescued, with twelve members of his family

David, Nicole (formerly Nicole Schneider): the saga of her rescue

Dawidowicz, Lisa: rescued, with her family

Day of Atonement: an act of rescue on

De Bisshop, Father Luc: hides two Jewish boys

De Breuker, Father Anton: shelters a Jewish girl

De Graaf family: Dutch rescuers

De Jong, Louis: records Dutch ‘indignation’ records a ‘yellow star’ protest

De la Croix, Sister Marthe: a rescuer

De Vries, Helena: rescued with her children

De Vries, Dr Maurits: ‘relatively few…were saved’, xix; his own rescuers recalled

Death Marches: from Budapest; in the final months of the war

Debar (Albanian-occupied Yugoslavia): Jews saved in

Debica (Poland): a Jewish woman from, rescued

Deblin (Poland): and two ‘decent’ Germans in a slave labour camp

Della Costa, Cardinal Elia: helps Jews

‘Diener’: an assumed name

Denmark: rescue of Jews of

Department of the Righteous (at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem):; the head of, once an escapee

Derer, Pastor Julius: saves Jewish children

Derksen, Carl-Johann and Helene: rescuers, in Holland

Desirée, Father de Wolf: a Belgian rescuer

Deutschkron, Inge: in hiding

Dhont, Willie: a Dutch rescuer

Di Marco, Mario: helps Jews in Rome

Diamond, Dr Salim: ‘I never found racism in the Italians’

Diamond, Margit: recalls a brave man

Diamond Workers Union (Holland): its founder, in hiding

Dimitrov, Rubin: hides twenty Jews

Dincq, Marie-Josephe: a Belgian rescuer

Dincq, Mark: with a Jewish girl hidden by his parents, Photo

Dincq, Pierre: a rescuer, and a resister

Diosgyor (Hungary): a miracle in

Dniester river: and village rescuers; and a Jew in hiding

Dobraczynski, Jan: helps children’s section of Council for Assistance to the Jews

Dobrowolski, Stanislaw: helps Jews in hiding

Dociszki (Poland): Jews sheltered in

Dohany Street Synagogue (Budapest): and the name of a Righteous priest

Dohnanyi, Hans von: helps a Righteous German pastor; saves fourteen Jews

Dominican Convent (Lubbeek, Belgium): hides six Jewish girls

Don Vincenti, Father Federico (‘Father Guardian’): hides Jews

Donadille, Pastor Marc: helps Jews; his two children, with a Jewish girl in hiding, Photo

Donat, William: and his rescuers

Dora-Mittelbau slave labour camp: French rescuers deported to; a Dutch rescuer imprisoned in

Dossin detention camp (German-occupied Belgium): some Jews rescued from; deportation from

Douvaine (France): a rescuer at

Douwes, Albert: finds hiding places for Jewish children

Diamonds in the Snow
(film):

Drancy (Paris): a deportation to, thwarted; food and clothing taken to; children smuggled out of; internment at; betrayed children deported from; a couple sent back from Switzerland, deported from

Dresden (Germany): a Jewish refugee from, hidden in Holland; three escapees from a Death March near, given refuge

Dreyfus, Professor Amos: recalls his rescuers

Dreyfus, Inès (Inès Vromen): her rescuers

Dreyfus, Lucie: given refuge

Dreyfus, Madeleine: finds refuge, with her three sons; escapes a round-up

Drohobycz (Eastern Galicia): rescuers in

Dryzin, Isaak: rescued, with his brother

Drzwiecka, Aleksandra: takes two Jewish children

Dubois, Maurice and Eléonore: help shelter Jewish children

Duckwitz, Georg Ferdinand: alerts Danish Jews; Photo

Dufour, Remond: a Dutch rescuer; with his own son and the Jewish boy in hiding, Photo

Dukla (Poland): and a compassionate German truck driver

Dullin (France): rescuers in

Dumas, Alexandre: provides ‘moments of light’

Dunin-Wasowicz, Krzysztof: helps a fellow ‘human being’

Dupnitza (Bulgaria): and a churchman’s protest

Durant, Bile: a Belgian rescuer

Dutch Brigade: in action (1944–45)

Dutch Communist Party: calls a general strike

Dutch Synagogue (Brussels): a rescuer honoured in, after liberation

‘Duteil, Madame’: an assumed identity

Duysenx, Paul: hides a Jewish boy

Dvach, Anna: saves Jews

Dvinsk (Latvia): an act of rescue in

Dvorkina, Ludmila: saved, with her mother

Dworzecki, Dr Mark: saved

Dyrda, Maria: saves a five-year-old Jewish girl

Dzienciolska, Bella: saved

East Prussia: a Jewish child hidden on an estate in

Eastern Galicia (Poland): rescue in

Edelman, Ben: saved by a German farmer

Edgar, Boy and Mia: save a Jewish girl

Edwards, Alan: helps save a Jewish girl

Eger (Czechoslovakia): an act of rescue in

Ehrenzweig, Rosa: rescued

Eibergen (Holland): a hiding place near

Eichmann, Adolf: protests to a German pastor; his office in Berlin; lists Jews for deportation; his deputy thwarted, in Denmark; warned of ‘harmony’ between Italian troops and Jews; learns that Italian troops have ‘used force’ to free Jews; reaches Hungary; turns his attention to Budapest; leaves Budapest; returns to Budapest; begins deportations by foot, towards Austria; helped by Arrow Cross; leaves Budapest

Eichmann Trial (Jerusalem): evidence at; the prosecutor at, thanks Norwegian Resistance’s rescue efforts

Einsatzgruppen (SS killing squads):

Einstein, Albert: his biographer’s rescuer

Eisenberg, Roma: submits testimony about her rescuer

Eisenstadt, Felix: saved

Ejszyszki (Poland): Jews escape from

Elbasan (Albania): Jews sheltered in

Elena, Queen Mother of Romania: helps Jews

Elens, Armand: a Belgian rescuer

elephants: and an act of rescue

Eliach, Yaffa: recalls her family’s rescue; and a Catholic couple’s act of rescue

Elias, Benjamin: his non-Jewish wife’s efforts on behalf of

Elisabeth, Queen Mother of Belgium: intercedes

Eliza (a Polish woman): helps Jews in hiding

Elzbieta (a new-born Jewish child): saved

Emalia Factory (Cracow): an infirmary at

Enciel, Raymond: in hiding, victim of an SS reprisal

Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust
: entries in, about rescuers

Enschede (Holland): a rescue organization in

Epe (Holland): two Jewish girls given sanctuary in

Eppel, David: reports on an SS search; reflects on the motives of his rescuers

Erdmann, Emmy: her acts of rescue

Erika (a Jewish girl): saved, in Vienna

Erlihmann, Moussia: a rescuer

Essen (Ruhr): a rescuer in

Esterowicz, Ida and Samuel: saved

Estonia: two rescuers in

Estonians: and collaboration, xix

Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsch): and acts of rescue; and an act of defiance; widespread; and a decent guard; their bad reputation

Europe: ‘islands of exception in’

Evian-les-Bains (France): Jews hidden in, and around

evil: ‘easily perpetuates itself

extortionists: ‘the bane of Jews in hiding’ Polish Government-in-Exile warns against; and rescuers; ever active

Faber, Reverend Adriaan and Ank: rescuers, in Holland

Fain, Audrée: in hiding with her daughters, Photo

Fain, Nadine: her rescuers; photographed with her mother and sisters, Photo

Fajnsztejn, Alicja and Zofja: given shelter, with their parents, with their rescuers, Photo

false papers: and rescue; in Italian Zone of France; in Greece; in Italy; in Hungary; in Budapest

‘Fanchet, Irene’: an assumed name

Father Bruno (Père Bruno): a rescuer; reflects on his motivation; with some of his Jewish children, Photo

‘Father Guardian’ (Father Federico Don Vincenti): saves Jews

Father Marko: shelters Jews

Father Pio (later Saint): hides a Jewish refugee

Father Ufryjewicz: helps save a Jewish family

Faye, Monsieur (a farmer): helps a Jewish mother and daughter

Federman, Annette and Micheline: given refuge

Federman, Hélène and Henri: given refuge

Feilgut, Bernard, Felicja and Ewa: protected

Feingold, Benjamin: given refuge

Feldman, Gisele: given refuge

Feller, Dr Harald (a Swiss citizen): hides Jews in Budapest

Ferri, Hoxha: enables eighty Jews to hide

Fierz, Olga: saves Jewish children

Filipowicz, Wanda: and the Council for Assistance to the Jews

Filipowski, Dr: helps Jews

‘Final Solution’: Italian opposition to

Finkelstein, Eitan: sends details of a rescue

Finkelsztajn, Menachem: saved

Finland: rescue of Jews in

First Communion: and Jewish girls in hiding; Photo, Photo

Fischer, Dr Ludwig: his harsh decree

Fischler, Leon (Jehuda Yinon): in hiding

Fischler-Martinho, Janina: finds a rescuer

Fisher Bill: helps save a Jewish girl

Fishman, Lonia and Sevek: hidden

Fiume (Italy): a rescuer tortured in; expulsion from; a Righteous Italian in, sent to Dachau

Fjellbu, Dean Arne: ‘the Church will sound the alarm…’

Flechtman, Moshe and Chawiwa: saved

Florence (Italy): a Cardinal in, helps Jews; a Jewish family, finds refuge in the mountains; a Jewish boy from Croatia finds refuge in

Flossenbürg concentration camp: a deportation to

Foix (France): Jewish children rescued near

Foley, Frank: issues visas

Follestad, Agnes: helps Jews

Follestad, Einar: helps Jews

Fomenko, Witold: hides Jews

food…and hope:

Fossati, Cardinal: finds refuge for a Jewish family

Foxman, Abraham (Abe): saved, xvii; Photo

France: round-ups in, xix; a rescue through, xx; Jews flee; acts of rescue in; dislike of German occupation in

Franchetti, Barone: arrested, in error

Franchetti family: the saga of their rescue

Franchetti, Luisa (Luisa Naor): recalls her family’s rescue

Franciscan Sisters (Bruges): hide Jews

Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary: Jewish children rescued by

Franciscans: save Jews, xvi

Franco, General: an opponent of, helps a Jew in hiding; a would-be fighter against, shows kindness to Jews at Auschwitz

Frank, Anne: ‘in a castle’ in hiding, and betrayed; and a Righteous ‘pack mule’ her rescuer betrayed

Frank, Hans: his cruel decree; forwards a protest

Franz (a block leader in Auschwitz): his ‘humanity’

Free Zone (‘Zone Libre’, France):; a French general refuses to round up Jews in; Jews smuggled into, from the Occupied Zone

Freiburg (Germany): and acts of kindness

Freier, Recha: and emigration to Palestine

Freifeld, Zygmunt: helped by a Polish railway official

French diplomats: help Jews (in Rome)

French Institute (Athens): two Jews hidden in

French police: arrest Jews, xx Freund, Irene: given refuge

Friedlaender, Paul (Pal Foti): and a ‘miracle’ given refuge, in Budapest

Friedländer, Elli and Jan: denied refuge

Friedländer, Saul: reflects on the paucity of Nazis with a conscience; his parents’ letter to his rescuer

Friedman, Israel and Berta: saved

Friedman, Philip: recalls slaughter in Lvov, and rescue; comments on the execution of ‘guilty’ Gentiles; and a collection of testimonies; and the execution of Kazimierz Jozefek

Fries, Libuse: her courageous acts

Friesland province (Holland): rescuers from

Fritsch, Franz: helps Jews

Frumkin, Si: reflects on the Righteous, xxi

Fry, Varian: helps Jews

Fuchs, Hertha and Kurt: rescuers, and their fate

Fuchs-Wartski, Marysia: saved, in Austria

Fuhrer, Yekel: in Schindler’s infirmary

Fulbert, Father: shelters Jews

Fürth (Germany): a Displaced Persons camp at

Fussi, Neila: gives refuge to a Jewish refugee

Gadeikyte, Julija and Pranas: hide six Jews