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Neuerscheinung Dezember 2019
Erhard Roy Wiehn
(Ed.)
How to become a hero
Count Stefan and Countess
Elisabeth Gyulai
saved
the lives of five human beings
and
were honored
as
Righteous among the Nations
in
Rome 2019
Addresses during the ceremony and
subsequent letters
And two comments on Desider David Fischer's Bunkerblätter
in German
Konstanz 2019, 60 pages, Fotos, € 19,80.
ISBN 978-3-86628-657-3
Ever since its establishment, the State of Israel took
upon itself to remember the horrors of the Holocaust and transmit and
perpetuate to future generations the memory of the victims. Israel has also set
its highest moral commitment to commemorate those, who at the time of
"absolute evil" have demonstrated empathy with those who suffered
persecution and anguish.
As many of you know, the Knesset, the Israeli
parliament, decided in 1953 to establish Yad Vashem the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
One of Yad Vashem´s principal duties is to convey the gratitude of the
State of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked their lives to
save Jews during the Holocaust. This mission was defined by the law
establishing Yad Vashem,
and in 1963 the Remembrance Authority embarked upon a world-wide project to
grant the title of Righteous Among the Nations to the
few who helped Jews in the darkest time in their history.
Yad Vashem grants the medal and a certificate of
honor and their names are commemorated on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem
of Righteous Among the Nations on the basis of the
following fundamental principles:
1) To non-Jews who during World War 2 saved the lives
of Jews;
2) Who in doing so have risked their own lives;
3) Who have not received any financial or other
compensation for their deeds.
For this very reason we are here today. We are here to
hon-or the memory of Stefan and Elisabeth Gyulai, who
saved the lives of five members of the Fischer, Perl and Steiner families. The
encounter of the two families here and now perpetuates the uppermost form of
humanity shown in times of darkness, when pure righteousness was an exceptional
phenomenon.
Being an important factor in strengthening the unique
ties between Israel and Italy, this moment is meaningful and very moving to me
as an individual, too.
Regretfully, in those years of awfulness in Europe not
many men and women acted as honest and righteous human beings like the Gyulais, who decided to take action for a just case. They
did so not for any personal benefit, but because of the sense of justice which
prevailed in their hearts. Until today, Yad Vashem recognized 694 Righteous persons in Italy.
Stefan and
Elisabeth knew - like other righteous men and women who were recognized by Yad Vashem - that they could make
a choice. They showed all of us that even one individual can make the
difference. At the crossroads between good and evil they have chosen the good.
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„Was aufgeschrieben, veröffentlicht und
in einigen Bibliotheken der Welt aufgehoben ist, wird vielleicht nicht so
schnell vergessen.“ (Erhard Roy Wiehn)
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