Jews honour Polish heroes

Monday, July 16, 2012

Dozens of elderly Poles who helped save Jews during the Second World War have gathered in Warsaw to be recognised by Jewish representatives who hailed them for their heroism.

The meeting, over a kosher lunch yesterday in an up-market hotel, comes amid a growing appreciation in Poland for the thousands of people, almost all Roman Catholics, who risked their lives to help Jews during the brutal six-year-long Nazi occupation of Poland.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, July 16, 2012