A man who helped save several Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II was given the title of Righteous Among the Nations at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Monday’s ceremony honored Piotr Biliewicz, who risked his life by hiding Jews after the Nazis exterminated their ghettos in 1942.
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