 The Hague (Image by (Not Known) Wikipedia, Author: Author Not Given) Details Source DMCA | THE HAGUE -- In 1943, Henk Zanoli took a dangerous train trip, slipping past Nazi guards and checkpoints to smuggle a Jewish boy from Amsterdam to the Dutch village of Eemnes. The boy would be the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.
71 years later, on July 20, an Israeli airstrike flattened a house in the Gaza Strip, killing 6 of Mr. Zanoli's relatives. On Thursday, Mr. Zanoli, 91, whose father died in a Nazi camp, went to the Israeli Embassy in The Hague and returned a medal he received honoring him as one of the Righteous Among the Nations -- non-Jews honored by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust. |
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