by the "Jerusalem Working Group"
Hundreds of thousands of Jews were rescued during the Holocaust by a few individuals and small rescue groups and many more could have been rescued ....
Despite all the talk and focus on the Holocaust few if any of these rescuers received appropriate level "recognition". For example, Israel's capital, Jerusalem, saw fit to name a street only after Raoul Wallenberg (where street signs are chronically missing despite complaints) and an alley after Gisi Fleischmann (Rechov Giza in the Ramot Bet neighborhood). Despite the fact that people like Carl Lutz (Swiss diplomat) and Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Portuguese diplomat) each rescued tends of thousands of Jews, and activism by the "Jewish Wallenbergs" led to rescue of hundreds of thousands, there is no public place named after them in Israel's capital!
The Israel government, its Yad Vashem agency and Philatelic Service categorically refuse meaningful recognition for the "Jewish Wallenbergs": George Mantello, Hillel Kook and his rescue group, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl and the Bratislava Working Group, Recha Sternbuch, and Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld - and, in fact, any Jew who rescued other Jews. It is less surprising but unfortunate that Israel/Yad Vashem refuse to "recognize" the significant and unfortunately effective "obstruction" of rescue by some free world Jewish/Zionist "leaders".
Beacons in the Dark
Design by Alexandr Simon, son of Raoul Wallenberg's niece: Ms. Louise von Dardel
Links:
Jerusalem Working Group
Some Wikipedia Links:
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Carl Lutz
Feng-Shan Ho
George Mantello
Giorgio (Jorje) Perlasca
Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson)
Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl and Gisi Fleischmann
Raoul Wallenberg
Recha Sternbuch
Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld
Documents:
Jerusalem Working Group - About
Jerusalem Working Group - White Paper
Two Paintings by Hanalisa Omer
Art:
"Help from the New Wold" and "Switzerland Awakens"
by Hanalisa Omer
Hanalisa Omer: hanalisa@bezeqint.net and +972 52 305-6505
Wallenberg paintings by Yehuda Vardi
Susie Vardi: vardisuzi@nana.co.il and +972 50 246-4644