Egyptian Doctor Honoured by Yad Vashem
For the first time in history, an Arab, an Egyptian doctor, has been honoured by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations. Mohamed Helmy, together with his German friend, rescued the four Berlin Jews.
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Mohamed Helmy was born in Sudan in 1901. At the age of 21, he left North Africa for Germany to study medicine. In 1937, he was sacked from the Koch Medical Institute where he worked. According to Nazi law, people of Hamitic races, as foreigners from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, could not work in the health services, nor could they marry aryans.
Over a couple of years, Dr Helmy and Frieda Szturmann hid their friend, twenty year old Anna Boros, and her family in their cottage near Berlin.
Mohamed Helmy died in 1982.
