The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Deaths: Saved Jews-- Part 2


Born in 1913, during World War II, Bertold Beitz saved hundreds of Jews at the oil fields he managed in occupied Poland by keeping them from being deported to concentration camps. He sometimes even went so far as to hide Jews at his home.

In August 1942, he saved 250 Jews from being deported to the Belzec Concentration Camp by claiming they were indispensable to production. 

After the war, he said: "There was no anti-Fascism, no resistance. We watched from morning to evening as close as you can get what happening to the Jews.... When you see a woman with her child in her arms being shot, and you yourself have a child, then your response is bound to be completely different."

Quite a Man.

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