Among the rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust were Armenians - some of them motivated by the memory of the atrocities committed against them at the beginning of the 20th century. These acts of rescue took place where the Armenians fled subsequent to the genocide - Ukraine, Crimea, France, Hungary, and Austria.
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Odessa, Ukraine: Peruza Bagdasarian and her son Sarkis protected Shura-Rivka Khasin and her children Rosa, and Avraham from the hostile janitor
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Beurkdjian, Yervante and ElbisColombes, France: Yervante and Elbis Beurkdjian hid Joseph and Hélène Goldhamer in their small apartment for six months
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Budapest, Hungary: Ara Jeretzian established a clinic where he hid some 40 Jewish doctors and their families and supplied them with forged documents
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Brunoy and Montacher, France: Georges Dilsizian and his son André-Gustave hid the Leon and Savi families
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Kharkov, Ukraine: Vartan Mkrtchyan and his mother Arakel hid Josef Taraszinsky, a refugee from Warsaw, in their home
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Vienna, Austria: Aram and Felicia Taschdjian hid Velentin Skidelsky in their home for three years
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Lyon, France: Albert and Makrouhi Hougassian and their daughter Berthe provided the Tancman family with forged papers and hid their daughter Paulette
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POW camp, Belarus: Harutyun Khachatryan protected fellow prisoner Iosip Kogan and forged his name and nationality on his ID
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Odessa, Ukraine: Ashken Agopyan sheltered Olga Rabinowitch and her daughters Dina and Maria and provided them with food
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Simferopol, Crimea: Grigori and Pran Tashchiyan, and their children Asmik and Tigran Tashchiyan hid Anatoliy and Rita for more than two years
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Kisheshyan, Arut, Natalia and AlmazaKharkov, Ukraine: Arut and Natalya Kisheshyan and their daughter Almaza Kisheshyan hid Reiza Krasova and her two sons, Vadim, and Yakov