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Against the orders of his superiors, Feng Shan Ho, the Chinese consul-general in Vienna from 1937 to 1940, facilitated the safe departure of the Jews in the years immediately preceding the Second World War, including those sent to Nazi concentration camps.
Ho's extraordinary rescue efforts were not known until after his death in 1997 -- thanks to his reporter daughter's nose for news.
Ho had lived after retirement in 1973 for almost a quarter of a century in San Francisco, California, not far from some of the people he had saved but they never knew it.
"He did not seek publicity, he did not seek recognition, he did not seek compensation. It was enough for him to know that he had done the right thing," Martin Gold, a member of the US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, said.
The commission launched the exhibition "On the Wings of the Phoenix: Dr Feng Shan Ho and the Rescue of Austrian Jews" at the rotunda of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill Monday.
"I think the ability and the character of a person who would undertake the humanitarian deed in the first place is then really highlighted by the fact that all he cared about was that he had saved the lives and he was not seeking praise or credit from anybody," Gold said.
"So all this praise that came to him happened after his death."
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May 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM Anonymous Says:
A True tzaddik! Unsung hero needs some singing so others can learn. Not like the Vatican which hid its head and refused to condemn the Nazis because they were afraid. How many Nazi soldiers were true Catholics that would have thought twice if the Vatican had condemned them to eternal Hell?
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May 22, 2008 at 06:31 AM Matzahlocal101 Says:
>How many Nazi soldiers were true Catholics that would have thought twice if the Vatican had condemned them to eternal Hell?
It's a good question but the applications for SS work in the concentration camps asked about religious beliefs. The Nazis prefered athiests for assignment to the camps and Einsaztgruppen as they were less likely to have a conscience. So it really would not have made much of a difference.