Joseph Froehlich, a member of the Sports League of the Union of Jewish Ex-Soldiers in Germany, at the risk of his own life saved the passengers of a blazing automobile involved in an accident in Cologne-Lindenthal.
Froehlich sustained severe-burns on his left arm as the result of his rescue work.
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