Yad Vashem honored 85 Austrians who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Among those recognized in the Vienna ceremony were Hermine Riss, posthumously recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” for hiding a Jewish woman in her home, and Danuta and Ewald Kleisinger, who hid several Jews in their home in Warsaw, the Washington Post reported. Austrian President Heinz Fischer said at the ceremony that after a long process, there now is a recognition in his nation that some Austrians bore responsibility in the Holocaust. “We have moved away from a one-sided theory of being victims,” he said. Austrians have “learned to see things more honestly and properly and to arrive at the public acknowledgment that there were victims and aggressors, aggressors and victims under the Austrians.”
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