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Channel Islands Woman Could Be Honoured By Israelis

Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by GRW, Jan 31, 2016.

  1. GRW

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    Let's hope it's successful.
    "A woman who risked her life by hiding a Jewish friend during World War Two, but ended up being disgraced as a bigamist, could finally have her heroic actions honoured by the state of Israel.
    While Dorothea Weber's husband was fighting for Hitler's forces in Europe she was hiding her friend Hedwig Bercu, who was being hunted by the Germans in Nazi-controlled Jersey.
    Now more than 70 years later Cambridge University academic Gilly Carr has requested Dorothea become only the second Channel Islander to receive the Righteous Among the Nations honour on the Yad Vashem - the Jewish living memorial to the Holocaust.
    Dr Carr is also trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Dorothea, whose fate after her bigamy conviction in 1949 is unknown."
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-35266312
     

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