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Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=627343
Israel Honors German Officer Who Saved Jews
(Independent-UK) Andrew Buncombe - Following years of investigation by the son of one of the 300 Jews saved from the Nazis by a German officer, Major Karl Plagge will be posthumously honored next week at a ceremony in Jerusalem by Yad Vashem, the authority created by the Israeli government to remember the Holocaust. Plagge arranged to take 1,000 Jews from the Vilnius, Lithuania, ghetto to the relative shelter of a nearby forced labor camp just one week before the ghetto was destroyed in July 1943. Daniel Freankiel of Yad Vashem said that Plagge "provides an impressive example of the ability of an individual to preserve his moral autonomy and resist being sucked into the vortex of evil."