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Module 8: Acts of Courage and Humanity
This boat, named "Sunshine" (formerly "Lurifax"), was used during World War II to transport Danish refugees from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections
Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Julien Samuel; his wife;
and their daughter, Françoise, by George Mandel-Mantello, October 12, 1943.
Video
Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa in Polish), a member of Zegota, an underground organization of Poles and Jews that coordinated efforts to save Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Additional Resources
SAN ANTONIO SURVIVOR CONECTION: See Rivka Ledor (p. 114), Suzanne Weisz Jalnos (p. 95), Eric Hass (pp. 53-54), and Sam Cohen (pp. 23-24) survivor accounts in Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, Becky Ebner Hoag, Grace Hoffman Mueller, Roxann Patrick, and Jeanette Pierce.
See photographs of on the back wall in the survival section of the museum local gallery.