Polish saviours of Jews honoured at zoo
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
08.04.2016 16:08
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New event honours gentiles who risked all
Several Poles who aided Jews during WWII were honoured on Thursday at a zoo with a remarkable past.
The medal ceremony at Warsaw Zoo. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell
The medals are named after Jan and Antonina Żabiński, former zookeepers, The couple gave temporary shelter to some 300 Jews on the zoo's grounds during the war.
The honours were instigated by From the Depths, an organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the protection of Jewish heritage.
“This is my duty as a human being to say thank you for those who did so much for my people,” said Jonny Daniels, the founder and executive director of From the Depths.
“In honouring them I’m giving them the respect they should have received a very, very long time ago.”