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Though there are many famous names among the Gentiles of the Holocaust these are the ones that really had an impact on me.

Oskar Schindler was a German citizen that lived in Germany. He once witnessed the evacuation of a Ghetto and was shocked at the brutality of the SS. So when he had an opportunity to help he did. In order to save the lives of Jews he Employed around 1200 Polish Jews to his factory to save them from being sent to the concentration camps. It is also rumored that he smuggled children out of the ghettos and gave them to polish Nuns that protected them. He was very passionate about protecting Jews. [|Schindler] There is now a movie about him called "Schindler's List"[|Schindler's list] and a book called "Schindler's Ark."[|Schindler's Ark]

Carl Lutz was a swiss man who worked with the Hungarian government to create documents that allowed Jews to emigrate to Palestine and avoid deportation. He also did this for Jewish children. But the thing that Lutz is most Remembered for is the "glass house". The Glass house was a safe house far Jews that nearly 3000 took refuge in. Lutz built many many safe houses all over Budapest (nearly 76) under the protection of the Swiss government, but none were as popular as the Glass House.He is credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from deportation because of the documents he worked to create. [|Lutz]

Paul Gruninger was a Swiss man like Carl Lutz but he went about saving Jews an Entirely different way. He allowed over 3,500 jews to come into Switzerland to avoid being deportd by the Nazis even though Switzerland had closed its doors to refugees. In order to make it seem legal that they entered the country he changed the dates on their passaports so that it looked like they came earlier (before the Swiss closed their doors). Unfortunantly a year later Gruninger was imprisoned for doing this and lived the rest of his life in poverty and died before his efforts could be recognized.

One very important person that saved many Jews is Irena Sendler. She was a Catholic Polish social worker before the holocaust, once the Germans took control of Poland Sendler began to work with Zegota and the Polish underground to save Jews and other victims. Sendler (with the help of her assistants) helped around 3000 by creating "false documents" that ensured their protection. In order to protect herself she used the name "Jolanta" while working with Zegota. Sendler was the head of the children's branch of Zegota. Her main job as head was to smuggle children out of the ghetto she did this by "checking for a disease" called Typhus. She and her assistants would smuggle the larger children out in suitcases and large boxes and she smuggled the smaller ones out in ambulances inside small boxes. She kept track of the children that were smuggled out in order to return them to their families when the war was over. Unfortunantly Irena Sendler was captured and tortured, she was sentenced to death but was able to escape due to a bribe paid by her organization. Sendler grew to be 98 years old and died recently in 2008. [|Sendler]

Ferdynand Arczynski was one of the founders of the organization Zegota. Arczynski's personal goal was to find all of the Jews in hiding a suitable place to live. He was the tresurer of Zegota and the head of Legalization for the organization. It is said that he would create hundreds of false documents a day that saved Jews mainly hiding in Poland. He even provided aid to People inside of the concentration camps.[|Ferdynand]

Two important diplomatic Figures in the business of helping Jews is Queen Elisabeth of Baravia.She was able to use some German contacts to help hundreds of Jewish children escape deportation by the SS.[|Queen] Prince Constantin Karadja of Romania supposedly used his position as prince to save around 51,000 Jews in Major European Countries.[|Prince] [|(Rescue)] [|(Righteous Among the Nations)] ~Seth and Andrew

This is Ierna Sendler.