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Kutno, WW2.

Righteous among the Nations is the term and award used by State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during The Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the German Nazis. Numbers of non Jewish citizens awarded Rightoeus medals: 6066 POLES , NETHERLANDS 4863 , FRANCE 2833. The rest of countries on: www.yadvashem.org Note about Poland: In German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a Jew were found concealed in their home or property, death was a punishment for providing any aid to Jew etc. giving bread or water to passing Jews. This was the most severe law enforced by Hitler in occupied Europe. Big part of awarded survived the war. Nazi Germans made death camp Auschwitz Birkenau in the area of Poland during WW2. In this camp Hitler, Himmler, Nazi Germans torture and killed civilians 960 000 Jews and 75 000 Poles. Only part of criminals were punished after war. Most well known Righteous, heroes: Irena Sendler (POLE) saved 2500 Jews , Oskar Schindler (GERMAN) saved 1200 Jews. Photo:Jews in Kutno, Poland during German occupation 1939. Occupation time 1939-1945. Author: Hugo Jaeger.