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There are many Countries that helped the Jews during the holocaust. These are Just the Main players, to see the full list [|Click here]

The people of the French town "Le Chambon-sur-Lingon, was a hot spot for gentile activity. One could say that the entire city was one big Gentile. They hid Jews everywhere, in their homes and in public places. When the SS would come looking for them the French would tell the Jews to go hide in the forest, a citizen of the town said that when it was safe for the Jews to come out the townspeople would sing a song and the Jews knew it was a sign that it was safe.[|French]

Albanians and Hungarians were also known to shelter thousands of Jews in their homes. [|(Rescue)]

The Polish gave the most of any country in the Entire world. The Poles were the only people to have ligitiment organizations that were specifically founded to help the Jews and resist the Nazis. These organizations were called the "Zegota" [|Zegota] and the Polish Resistance. Both organizations were very successful in their efforts, even though the Polish Resistance was mainly an "armed resistance" to the Germans [|Resistance] they still helped many a Jew during the holocaust. Over 6,000 awards have been awarded to polish Gentiles historians believe that heir were many many more who were not recognized, one historian even suggests that the number of Polish gentiles could number close to 1,200,000.[|Poland]

Italians also played a role in saving Many Jews both y creating letters of protection and allowing the Jews to be smuggled into Italy, so that the Nazis could not get to them. [|see Italy]

The Norwiegens helped mainly Jewish children by setting up a Jewish children safe house on Olso. Unfortunantly the Nazis found out about it and came to deport all of the children but the Norweigens who worked at the House hid all 14 children in Sweeden from the Nazis so they couldn't be taken to the camps. [|Olso]

Generally, Christians were the most common religious group to give aid to the Jews. In Greece, Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou got his people to protest the Germans taking the Greek Jews, even during the German occupation of Greece. [|(Rescue)]

In Denmark by means unknown days before deportation nearly all of the Jews went into hiding with the help of their gentile friends. Later fisherman of Denmark brought almost all of Denmark's Jewish population to Sweden, because they were neutral and the Germans could not get them their. [|see Denmark]

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