The story of the Belgian nuns who saved Jewish children from the Nazis

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As the Nazis began rounding up Jews for extermination, Belgian nuns saved Jewish children by hiding them into their convents and orphanages. A recent book reports on this before unknown story. Out of the articles reporting on what this writer discovered, the publisher’s own account of this seems best. See
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This parallels the efforts of some French convents that did the same thing, and of some Italian monasteries that saved Jewish men similarly. “Righteous Gentiles” is the phrase used for those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. At Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, over 11,000 “Righteous Gentiles” are honored; almost 5,000 are Polish, and that last is particularly impressive because the penalty for helping a Jew in Poland was not the same as that in Denmark - a prison sentence - but death.
 
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