A late Carabiniere officer who saved
two Jewish sisters from the Nazis was named 'Just Among the
Nations' by Israel on Thursday.
Brigadier Giuseppe Ippoliti, originally from Sonnino near Latina
south of Rome, took Edith and Trude Fischhof into his home near
Brescia in 1943 along with his wife Teresa Zani, saving them
from deportation to the death camps.
The great-grandson of Ippoliti, who died in 1974, was given the
honour in a Latina school Thursday by Israeli Ambassador to
Italy Dror Eydar.
The most touching moment of the ceremony was when Edith
Fischhof went back over the dramatic days of their rescue along
with the brigadier's descendant, Paolo Ippoliti.
Just or Righteous Among the Nations is an honorific used by the
State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives
during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the
Nazis for altruistic reasons.
The most famous recipient of the 'Righteous' title was Oskar
Schindler, whose rescue of thousands of Jews in his factories
was told in Thomas Keneally's 1982 historical novel Schindler's
Ark and the 1993 film by Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List.
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