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Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Holocaust hero

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Justus Rosenberg was a Holocaust survivor who worked with the French Resistance to help refugees escape the Nazi regime.A native of Danzig, in modern-day Poland, Rosenberg was sent by his parents to study in Paris in the years leading up to World War II.

As the Nazi occupation of Paris neared, Rosenberg fled to Toulouse, in the south of France, where he became involved with the French Resistance.

He worked with Varian Fry’s Emergency Rescue Committee, a network that helped Jews and other enemies of the Third Reich escape Nazi Europe.

With the group. Rosenberg worked to carry messages and provide forged identity papers to refugees, as well as escorting them across the Pyrenees to Spain.

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