Brown honored the heroes of the Holocaust

FB, 16 November 2016
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has awarded Britons who saved Jews and members of other persecuted nations during the World War II with a silver medal of the Hero of the Holocaust.


During the ceremony at Downing Street 26, the medals were given to families and relatives of people who were posthumously decorated and to the two men who are still alive.

Among the posthumously awarded was Jane Haining, the "Righteous Among the Nations", who was a Scottish Protestant missionary. During the WW II, she ran a girl’s orphanage for 400 Jewish women in Budapest, and when the Germans entered Hungary in 1944, she refused to return to Scotland and was sent to Auschwitz, where died in June 1944.

Among the decorated were also those who are still alive: Sir Nicholas Winton who enabled the escape of more than 600 Jewish children from occupied Czechoslovakia to England, and Denis Avey, who as a war prisoner, helped a German Jewish prisoner to survive the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the Honored people did not hesitate to take a courageous position against prejudice, hatred and intolerance and their attitude should set an example for the others.