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Other articles by Margie Burns

  • Turkey Served As Safe Haven For Jews During The Holocaust
    Turkish Consul Selahattin Ulkumen's confrontation with the Nazis in the occupied Greek island of Rhodes, during the Holocaust,...
  • Marion Pritchard, Dutch savior
    The Dutch government surrendered to the Nazis 5 days after the Germans invaded in May, 1940. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, and...
  • Monsignor Beniamino Schivo, savior
    With the courageous efforts of heroes such as Father Beniamino Schivo, the rector of a seminary in Citta di Castello, 85% of...
  • Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon
    "People who agonize don't act, people who act don't agonize. Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon was both very special and very ordinary. Their...
  • El Salvador, a rescuing country
    While the heroic efforts of saviors in Europe have increasingly come to light in the years since World War II,  El Salvador which...
  • Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
    At the age of 21, Sophie Scholl was executed by the People's Court in Germany on Feb. 22, 1943, during the Holocaust, for her...
  • The Sharps
    A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Martha Ingham Dickie attended services at her local Unitarian Church from the age of three....
  • Agnieszka Budna Widerschal, Poland
    Under the noses of the Gestapo, Agnieszka Budna-Widerschal, a catholic peasant woman from northern Poland, ventured into the...