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Egyptian Physician Named Righteous Gentile


(Ynet News) Omri Efraim - Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, has honored Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian physician living in Berlin during World War II, as Righteous Among the Nations. Helmy sheltered Anna Boros Gutman, 21, a friend of Helmy's family, in a cabin he owned in Berlin's Buch Quarter, where she safely hid until the war ended. Helmy also hid Georg and Julie Wehr, Anna's mother.
2013-10-02 00:00:00
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