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Garden of the Righteous

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Those honored here risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They are Jan Karski of Poland; Preben Munch-Nielsen of Denmark; Raoul Wallenberg of Sweden; Marion Pritchard of the Netherlands; Germaine Belline of Belgium; Eugene de Thassy of Hungary; Sabina Kazimierczyk of Poland; Magdalena Horvath of Hungary; Vasilis Persedis of Greece; Bruno Rozentals of Latvia; the Madna Family of the Netherlands; the Gauvin Family of France; Giuliana Lestini of Italy; Magdelena Stroe of Romania; Jaap Penraat of the Netherlands; Heinz Drossel of Germany; Khaled Abdul-Wahab of Tunisia; Georges Ranson of Belgium; Father Bruno, O.S.B., of Belgium; Jose Arturo Castellanos of El Salvador; Tina Strobos of the Netherlands; Irena Sendler of Poland; Natalia Szczepaniak of Poland; Alicja Schnepf of Poland; Aristides de Sousa Mendes of Portugal; Archbishop Ioakim Alexopoulos of Greece; the Veseli Family of Albania; Captain Gustav Schroeder of Greece; and Sir Nicholas Winton of Great Britain. May their names be for a blessing.
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