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Anna and Dr Helmy, how an Arab doctor saved a Jewish girl in Hitler's Berlin, Ronen Steinke ; translated by Sharon Howe

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Anna and Dr Helmy

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Ronen Steinke ; translated by Sharon Howe

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how an Arab doctor saved a Jewish girl in Hitler's Berlin

The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem has to date honoured more than 25,000 of the courageous non-Jewish men and women who saved Jewish people during the Second World War. But it is a striking fact that under the 'Righteous Among the Nations' listed at Yad Vashem there is only one Arab person: Mohammed Helmy. Helmy was an Egyptian doctor living in Berlin. He spent the entire war there, all the time walking the fine line between accommodation to the Nazi regime and subversion of it. He was also a master of deception, outfoxing the Nazis and risking his own life to save his Jewish colleagues and other Jewish Berliners from Nazi persecution. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story.--, Provided by publisher