NZFOI: A Holocaust story with a New Zealand connection.
A Holocaust survivor has accidentally discovered after 75 years who hid her relatives from the Nazis – and she wants him posthumously recognised as a righteous gentile.
The man, Wladamir Riszko, is believed to have hidden 16 people in a cellar in the Polish city of Przemysl between 1942 and 1944 – including the woman who later became his wife.
Rosalie Hart’s uncle and cousin, Meyer and Regina Dornbusch, were among those hidden by Mr Riszko.
Ms Hart, a 91 year-old Krakow ghetto survivor in Maida Vale, had heard snippets of her relatives’ time in hiding over the years. But she never had enough to piece together a full picture.
Then this year, just days before Holocaust Memorial Day, the identity of the man who saved her relatives emerged on Facebook.
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