The Guild of Jewish Journalists has made its award for 1981 to a Roman Catholic journalist who died almost 40 years ago. The posthumous recipient is John Segrue, who wrote for the “News Chronicle” and whose dispatches from
Nazi Europe about what was happening to Jews “alerted the world to the true evil of the Nazi philosophy,” said Joseph Grizzard, chairman of the Guild, in announcing the award.
Segrue was expelled by the Nazis from Berlin and from Vienna for denouncing their persecution of the Jews. He was captured in Zagreb in 1941 and held prisoner in upper Silesia until his death the following year. To commemorate the award, the guild plans to plant trees in Israel in Segrue’s name. Details of his heroic efforts on behalf of Jews have been passed on to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for its archives.
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