Civilian

In general, a civilian is “a person who is not a member of the police, the armed forces, or a fire department.” The definition distinguishes from persons whose duties involve risking their lives to protect the public at large from hazardous situations such as terrorism, riots, conflagrations, and wars. Criminals are also excluded from the category, as members of the public, politicians, and the media want to distinguish between those who are law-abiding and those who are not.

Signees

Thomas Keneally

9 September 2019 Lars McKie 0

THOMAS KENEALLY – Civilian, author of “Schindler’s Ark” Almost 40 years ago, Thomos Keneally, intent on buying a briefcase, entered a leather goods store owned by a man named Poldek Pfefferberg. Pfefferberg, on learning that [Read more]

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Les Grafton

8 February 2019 Lars McKie 0

Imagine being a 12 year old London resident living through the German bombing campaign of 1940 and 1941. Your childhood containing almost daily bombing raids on your city in a deliberate campaign to put terror [Read more]

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Dame Vera Lynn

4 January 2018 Nick Devaux 0

Dame Vera Lynn OBE, English singer, songwriter and actress awarded a British War Medal 1939–1945 and the Burma Star. Known as “the Forces’ Sweetheart”, who toured Egypt, India, and Japanese occupied Burma as part of [Read more]

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Regine Halm

15 November 2017 Nick Devaux 0

Ms. REGINE HALM – wife of Günter Halm, German infantryman; personally honored by General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel with the Knight’s Cross for his bravery in El Alamein. I first learned about Günter Halm from [Read more]

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Hildegard Joseph

27 October 2017 Nick Devaux 0

HILDEGARD AUGUSTE JOSEPH nee LACKMANN – German civilian, born in 1928 in Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Germany. In accordance with Hitler’s decree all young people had to work for the Reich for 1 year. In July 1943, [Read more]

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David Bayer

21 July 2017 Nick Devaux 0

DAVID BAYER – Holocaust survivor Auschwitz and Jaworzno Born to Jewish parents Manes and Sarah Bayer in Kozienice in southeastern Poland, David Bayer was the second of 4 children. His life as a teenager attending [Read more]

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Albert Garih

19 July 2017 Lars McKie 0

​Albert Garih is a Holocaust survivor who was born on June 24, 1938, in Paris, France. His parents, Benjamin and Claire Garih, were Sephardic Jews originally from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), who had moved to [Read more]