Avenue of the righteous

Relates the stories of four cases of Righteous Gentiles who rescued Jews - in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Poland. Abram Lipski and his wife Tanya found refuge in the home of Pieter Henry in Gent from September 1942. Their son Raphael, born in 1939, was hidden in the home of Henriette Regina Chaumat in Gent. Noortje Hegt, from Amsterdam, spent two years hidden by Sietske Postma in Ferwerd, a village in Friesland. Raoul Laporterie, from Mont-de-Marsan in southwest France, helped many Jews cross from occupied France to Vichy. As the mayor of Bascons he falsified identity papers and was active in the French resistance. Leokadia Jaromirska, from Białołęka (north of Warsaw), found and took care of a baby girl, Shifra Jonisz, from October 1942 until the war's end, when the child's father, who survived Majdanek and Auschwitz, returned to claim her. These rescuers were recognized as Righteous Gentiles by Yad Vashem. xviii, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm