LITHUANIANS WHO RESCUED JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED AS RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
On 2 June during a solemn ceremony at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, the Lithuanian Righteous among the Nations – Antanas Babonas, his sister Ona Korsakienė and her husband Antanas Korsakas - were honoured posthumously.
The families of Antanas Babonas and his sister Ona Korsakienė risked their lives during the Second World War to rescue cousins Roza and Sarah Furmanski.Jadvyga Korsakienė, the daughter-in-law of Ona Korsakienė, received the medal of the Righteous Among the Nations and a special certificate. On this occasion, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the grove of the Righteous among the Nations at Yad Vashem. Members of the families of Roza and Sarah Furmanski also attended the ceremony.
The Honorary award of the “Righteous among the Nations” is given by of Israel’s Supreme Court for non-Jewish people, who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Second World War. In the beginning of 2011, there were 800 Lithuanian citizens on the list.
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