In a short but moving ceremony at the Embassy of Israel today. Ambassador Arieh Eshel presented a certificate of honor issued by the Israel Commemorative Institute of Martyrs and Heroes (Yad Vashem) to Dr. Zbigniew Gorecki, now of Cornwall, Ont., who as a young doctor in Poland in 1942 saved the life of a Jewish child by smuggling her out to safety under the noses of the Gestapo. Her parents had decided to commit suicide rather than be killed by the Nazis, and before their death, had entrusted their 8-year-old daughter to Dr. Gorecki in the hope that he could save her.
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