Unknown Righteous Gentiles

Unknown Righteous Gentiles. . Many Jews were able to survive the Holocaust because of the actions of Unknown Righteous Gentiles. Most Righteous Gentiles remained anonymous for reasons of self-preservation: If they had been found out, the Nazis would have killed them and their families. Others stayed anonymous for various personal reasons. Among the Jews whose lives were spared because of assistance rendered by such unknown individuals were Terry Dannemann of Dover and Dorothy Krause Finger of Wilmington. Terry was living near Tarnov in Galicia when the war broke out. In July 1941, her family met a young Polish man who hid them in a stable on his parents' farm, then led them to the ghetto of Dembica, where they hid in a cellar for several days. He refused payment for his actions. Terry was smuggled out of the ghetto to the train station, where she mixed with Poles going to work near Heidelberg, Germany. She spent the rest of the war there disguised as a Roman Catholic Pole named Teresa Kowalska. Along with eleven other Jews, including her mother, 13-year-old Dorothy was locked in the attic of a barn in her native town of Chodorow in Galicia for three days in March 1943. The group paid the man who lived there to hide them while the town was being rid of Jews. Dorothy subsequently survived the war in three ghettos, a labor camp, and the forest near Przemysl in Galicia.