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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/wilfrid-israel-an-unsung-holocaust-hero-gets-his-own-film/
Wilfrid Israel, an Unsung Holocaust Hero
(Times of Israel) Jessica Steinberg - The film "The Essential Link, The Story of Wilfrid Israel" documents the efforts of a wealthy German Jew who saved thousands of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. His biographer, Naomi Shepherd, noted that his family owned Israel's Department Store in Berlin. He engineered the emigration of thousands including his Jewish employees, and helped launch the Kindertransport, which saved 10,000 children. He died in an airplane crash in 1943 together with actor Leslie Howard, shot down by German fighter jets.