Polanski's wartime rescuers named Righteous Among the Nations


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  • Thursday, 15 Oct 2020

Director Roman Polanski arrives for the Righteous Among the Nations ceremony to honour a Polish couple who sheltered him from the Nazis during World War Two in Gliwice, Poland October 15, 2020. Grzegorz Celejewski/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. POLAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN POLAND.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski attended a Righteous Among the Nations ceremony in Poland on Thursday to honour a Polish couple who sheltered him from the Nazis during World War Two.

Righteous Among the Nations is a title awarded by Israel's World Holocaust Remembrance Center (Yad Vashem) to non-Jews who risked their own lives to help rescue Jews during the Holocaust.

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