A man credited with rescuing thousands of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe died in Maryland at 92. William Perl was known as the “Moses of the Holocaust” after organizing a rescue effort that brought some 40,000 Jews to Palestine during the late 1930s and 1940s.
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