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On Thursday, February 26, 2015, a ceremony posthumously honoring Dimitâr Peshev from Bulgaria, as Righteous Among the Nations will take place at YadVashem. The ceremony will be attended by Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria, H.E. Mr. DimitarMihaylov, YadVashem Chairman AvnerShalev, Director of the Department of the Righteous Among the Nations, Irena Steinfeldt, Chairman …

Israeli representatives posthumously gave the Righteous Among the Nations Award to three Greek people who put their lives in danger during the World War II to help Jews escape from the Holocaust. The ceremony was held in Veria (northern Greece) by the local Municipality. Israeli Ambassador Aryeh Mekel, president of …

Arnold Reisman is an engineer and a retired professor of operations research at Case Western Reserve University. Born in Lodz in 1934, he came to the United States after World War II and is the author of numerous books about Holocaust refugees in Turkey, including Turkey’s Modernization: Refugees from Nazism …