(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, SEPTEMBER 30 - For the first time ever,
the World Center for Holocaust Research Vad Vashem has honored
an Egyptian with the title 'Righteous Among the Nations'.
The honor was bestowed on the Egyptian doctor Mohamed Helmy -
who lived in Berlin during the years of Nazi rule - for helping
Jewish families escape anti-Jewish persecution. Helmy was aided
by a German woman, Frieda Szturmann, who has now also been
recognized with the same honor.
Yad Vashem has said that it is seeking to contact the
relatives of Helmy, who died in 1982, in order to honor his
memory in a special ceremony. (ANSAmed).
