The 93-year-old Polish citizen Andrzej Sitkowski, who was named "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 1995 talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Durach, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022 Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbour to hide a little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home. This year, as the world commemorates the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp on January 27, 1945, Yad Vashem and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany have teamed up to highlight the stories of "Righteous Rescuers" the people who risked everything, even their own lives, to save Jews from getting murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen. (AP Photo/Alexandra Beier)
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