By Mandy Te on Stuff…
Eva Woodbury has been going through a “kaleidoscope of emotions” after relatives of Holocaust survivors her father hid in his Poland home for two years have contacted her.
Now, they are campaigning for her father, Wladimir Riszko?, to be a Righteous Among the Nations, a title used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jewish people who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They’re also hoping to find descendents of other people he saved.
The Holocaust, between 1939 and 1945, was the mass genocide of six million Jewish people. Jewish communities came to New Zealand during early European settlement and more as refugees arriving from Nazi Germany before and after World War II.
Riszko hid 16 Jewish people in the basement of his home in Przemy?l? from 1942 to 1944 – one of those people was her mother, Renee…
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