A monthly pension of 200 deutschemarks ($50) has been awarded to a 67-year-old German sea captain and his wife, in recognition for their having helped some 400 Jews escape from Germany during the Nazi regime, by training them to be seamen and smuggling them aboard foreign ships in the port of Danzig, it was announced here today by Senator Joachim Lipschitz.
The sea captain, Gustav Pietsch, was arrested and ill-treated by the Nazis several times between 1933 and 1938, when he managed to flee Germany with his wife and three children. After working several years as a sea captain in Israel, Capt. Pietsch returned to Germany and settled here with his wife.
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