Yad Vashem posthumously honored a Dutch couple and a Pole for rescuing Jews during World War II. On Wednesday, Albertus and Margaretha Haverkort of Holland and Zofia Wroblewska-Wiewiorowska of Poland, who hid nine Jews from the Nazis, were named Righteous Gentiles.
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