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Yad Vashem Archives Rediscover Heroic Rescue - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper Yad Vashem archives rediscover heroic rescue - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper SUBSCRIBE TO HAARETZ DIGITAL EDITIONS TheMarker Car Rental עכבר העיר TheMarker הארץ Haaretz.com Café Week's End Hello susan Profile Log out Mayim Bialik's big You have viewed 1 of 10 articles. subscribe now bang Sunday, December 02, 2012 Kislev 18, 5773 NEWS OPINION JEWISH WORLD BUSINESS TRAVEL IN CULTURE WEEKEND BLOGS ISRAEL ISRAEL NEWS Tzipi Livni's comeback Ehud Barak quits politics Iran Palestinian UN bid Egypt protests Like Follow 57k BREAKING NEWS 13:27 Seven Kadima MKs request to split and join Livni's Hatnuah (Haaretz) More Breaking News Home Weekend Week's End Yad Vashem archives rediscover heroic rescue HAARETZ SELECT At a moving ceremony this week in Berlin, Yad Vashem recognized the previously unknown heroic rescue of Jews by an active Wehrmacht soldier during the Holocaust. By Ofer Aderet | Nov.30, 2012 | 12:35 PM 0 Tweet 4 Recommend Send You and 68 others recommend this.68 people ecommend this Be the fi st of o f iends On the religious right – unity and discord Habayit Hayehudi and National Union finally signed a unity agreement, and though it has been in the air for months, it wasn't a simple achievement. By Anshel Pfeffer| Israel Election Insider Israel bids adieu to Joe Lieberman, a staunch ally in U.S. Senate By Natasha Mozgovaya| News East Jerusalem project could bury two- state solution By Nir Hasson| Diplomacy & Defense | 28 Haredi parties realize they aren't immune to voters' disenchantment By Yair Ettinger| Features Gerhard Kurzbach at his 1940 wedding. It's unclear why he was transferred to another unit. Photo by Courtesy of Yad Vashem A year and a half ago, an e-mail arrived at Yad Vashem's Righteous Among Text the Nations department. The sender, a resident of Germany, wished to inquire whether a deceased relative of his, a Wehrmacht soldier named size Comments Gerhard Kurzbach, was worthy of being granted recognition as one of the (0) Print Page Righteous Among the Nations. Send to friend http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/yad-vashem-archives-rediscover-heroic-rescue.premium-1.481660[02/12/2012 15:08:24] Yad Vashem archives rediscover heroic rescue - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper In response to the e-mail, the department's director, Irena Steinfeldt, Share on Facebook opened an investigation in the Yad Vashem Archives. "And suddenly a Share on Twitter fabulous story started coming together for me," she related this week. Share Thanks to advanced software that makes it possible to conduct a search THIS STORY IS BY that focuses on various cross-sectional data, she was able to locate Ofer Aderet testimonies from the 1940s, '50s and '70s of various Holocaust survivors. "All of a sudden, loads of testimonies popped up, which described a rescue RELATED TAGS story we had not been familiar with previously, at whose center was Gerhard Kurzbach, the Wehrmacht soldier," she said. With the material in Holocaust hand, Steinfeldt applied to a German archive in Berlin, where the personal Jewish World files of the millions of soldiers of the Third Reich are maintained to this day. The archive's staff tracked down Kurzbach's file for her. Master Sgt. Kurzbach, born in 1915, was drafted into the German military in August 1939 and, shortly before World War II broke out, was assigned to the artillery corps. In May 1941, he was appointed commander of a workshop for refurbishing military vehicles in the town of Bochnia, near Krakow, Poland. The plant employed hundreds of Jewish forced Romek Marber. Together with 200 other Jews, he was laborers from the Bochnia ghetto. sent to work at Kurzbach's plant. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum Survivors from Bochnia recounted that Kurzbach saved a large number of Jews from roundup and deportation by concealing them in the plant he managed. He even was able to smuggle a few into hiding places. One testimony came from Romek Marber, an 87-year-old survivor who today lives in Britain. Marber, who was born in Poland, was deported to Bochnia in 1939 from Shelly Yacimovich and the divisions of Turek. Two years later, together with 200 other Jews, Labor he was sent to work at Kurzbach's plant. Minutes after the primary vote ended, Labor politicians resorted to their favorite practice: undermining the party leader. "On August 23, 1942, the day of the big aktion in the By Yossi Verter | News ghetto," said Marber, in conversation with Haaretz this 'I never heard a Jewish man say that week, "we were told that we had to stay during the women aren't funny' night and work, since there was more work than By Neta Alexander| Magazine expected: more lorries to be finished than planned. The gate of the factory was also closed, which was very rare. How to be happy: Join Likud or become ambassador to China Usually it was always open." By Doron Rosenblum| Doron Rosenblum The next day, when the workers returned to the ghetto Makings of History / Our buddy after work, they found it was empty. "We realized that Minister of Defense Ehud Barak Kurzbach had actually saved us from the aktion and By Tom Segev| Week's End from deportation," he said. "I never saw him again," WEEK'S END Marber added. The letter sent in 1943 to Kurzbach's whife from the The new 'normal' in Israeli Anyone who was not hidden at the plant was sent that Jews he saved. education By Yossi http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/yad-vashem-archives-rediscover-heroic-rescue.premium-1.481660[02/12/2012 15:08:24] Yad Vashem archives rediscover heroic rescue - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper very night to the Belzec death camp. For example, that Klein |12:35 PM was the fate of Marber's mother, sister and grandparents. Later in the war, he was moved around between various camps, including Auschwitz. Marber Israeli music industry changing formats did not know what happened to Kurzbach, who had By Ben Shalev|12:35 PM saved his life. All he recalled was that Kurzbach disappeared in March 1943. I, the glorious Sephardi Jew In fact, Gerhard Kurzbach had been transferred suddenly to another unit. The last sign of life from him came from Romania, in a letter he sent to his By Benny Ziffer|12:35 PM family in 1944. He died in 1945 in a Red Army prisoner-of-war camp. The question of why he was transferred from his post and whether he was sent to the front as punishment for having saved Jews remains unanswered to Meaty issues / Parashat this day. Vayishlach By Yakov Meir|12:35 PM Clear criteria When the war was over Marber reunited with his father and brother, who FACEBOOK had immigrated to the United Kingdom. He managed to rebuild his life and became a successful graphic designer. Among other things, he ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS designed the covers of Penguin books (including 200 titles from the Recent Activity Penguin Crime line ) and covers for both The Economist and New Society magazines. He also served as art director of The Observer newspaper. At the height of his career, he was chair of the graphic design department at Naftali Balanson recommended London's Hornsey College of Art. Israeli peace activist: Hamas leader Jabari killed amid talks on long- term truce. · about 2 weeks ago "If you live constantly with hate, you will eventually destroy yourself," said Naømi Weiß recommended Jewish graves Marber. "The tragedy is so big, but you continue. Without forgetting." he recovered from river in Poland. · about 2 months said. ago iTunes should be coming to Israel soon In early 2010, Marber published a memoir, "No Return: Journeys in the 4 people recommended this. Holocaust," in which he mentions Kurzbach and his efforts in saving Jews. Israeli nurse resigns after being told her breast milk is unwelcome in staff refrigerator Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations department has a staff of 10 93 l d d thi employees, and is multilingual. In an average year, they review the cases of Facebook social plugin several hundred candidates for the distinction. The criteria are clear: A candidate, who need not be alive, must be a non-Jew who saved Jews in the Holocaust, at the risk of his or her life, and not for monetary gain. Every year some 500 new righteous gentiles are added to the list. In the course of the 50 years during which the honor has been bestowed, some 24,500 people have made the list. Kurzbach met the criteria, and Marber's testimony played a key role in the decision to name him a Righteous Among the Nations. In accordance with protocol, the case was sent for approval to a public committee that consists of Holocaust survivors and headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel (not a survivor himself ). After it was decided to grant the distinction to Kurzbach, Yad Vashem with the help of the Israeli Embassy in Berlin worked to locate his relatives. It turned out that Kurzbach's family is split between two German states, Bavaria and Brandenburg - one in former West Germany and the other in the former East - and that the two branches had never met. "It is hard for me to describe the excitement that took hold of them when I got in touch with them," said Sandra Witte, a staffer at the Israeli embassy in Germany, which is in charge of organizing the ceremonies for German Righteous Among the Nations. "None of them had known Kurzbach, but they began to cry." Kurzbach's daughter died early this year.
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