Thursday, October 27, 2011

Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies (AP)

FILE - In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen speaking to the AP, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, died Thursday at age 90, it was announced Saturday Oct. 22 2011. From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse he secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Pretending he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation, he led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.


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