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\"italics\"<\/a>By Yaakov Schwarz*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seventy-five years after he helped a group of over 1,000 Jews fleeing Italian-occupied France, 98-year-old Jewish-Italian Enzo Cavaglion was honored in his hometown of Cuneo on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Cavaglion was presented with the Jewish Rescuers Citation by B\u2019nai Brith World Center-Jerusalem and the Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jews who Rescued Fellow Jews During the Holocaust at his residence, surrounded by family and friends.<\/p>\n

He still lives in the same village from which he helped organize the 1943 rescue effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnzo was really moved by the award,\u201d said Alan Schneider, director of B\u2019nai Brith World Center-Jerusalem, who attended the presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s 98 years old \u2014 frail in body, but his mind is sharp, and it was an opportunity for him to remember those awful days when he assisted these 1,000 Jews who escaped over the Maritime Alps from France into Italy,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Rescuers Citation was established in 2011 to help correct the common misconception that Jews didn\u2019t significantly help rescue other Jews during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

To date, nearly 200 heroes who operated in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Holland, Italy, Ukraine, Latvia and Austria have been awarded the citation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades there\u2019s been a focus on non-Jewish rescuers, such as the recognition as Righteous Among the Nations \u2014 an outstanding program spearheaded by Yad Vashem,\u201d said Schneider.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there is also a huge focus on it by European countries who want to showcase their rescuers, and they often have a much broader expression of this than Yad Vashem,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of this has helped to create a brand of righteous among the nations, and now all these decades later, we\u2019re trying to play catch up and recognize Jews who went beyond the call of duty and put themselves in even greater danger in Germany and allied countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schneider says that thousands of Jews in France joined resistance groups that saved fellow Jews \u2013 particularly Jewish children, and that these groups were highly successful in helping preserve the future of French Jewry in the face of genocide.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most famous among partisans dedicated to rescuing Jews are the group led by the four Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael, and Aron, who safeguarded 1,236 Jews in the forest inside present-day Belarus. The group is the subject of the 2008 Hollywood film \u201cDefiance,\u201d starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.<\/p>\n

Like the Bielski brothers, Cavaglion and his own brother Riccardo simultaneously fought the Nazis and worked to save Jewish lives, something Schneider says was unusual.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many cases you couldn\u2019t do both \u2014 saving Jews and fighting Nazis, so a lot of resistance movements had to choose between fighting and rescue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Cavaglion brothers were founding members of the Italia Libera partisan group, which they established on September 12, 1943, the day that Cuneo was occupied by the German First SS Panzer division.<\/p>\n

At the same time, more than 1,000 Jews living in the remote Italian-occupied French Alpine village of Saint-Martin-Vesubie fled to Cuneo across the Maritime Alps in the face of German invasion \u2013 only to find Nazis combing the area. About 300 of the group were captured and sent to Auschwitz.<\/p>\n

The brothers helped the remaining 700 find shelter among a sympathetic peasant population in the surrounding mountain villages, and raided local municipal offices, stealing documents with which they forged paperwork for the fugitive Jews.<\/p>\n

Cavaglion was awarded the Jewish Rescuers Citation for putting aside his own well-being as he and his family were also hunted by the Nazis, and helping the hundreds of fleeing Jews find asylum.<\/p>\n

The Holocaust survivor was moved to tears when he was presented with the honor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first recognition that he had from a Jewish organization for endangering himself,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cBeyond that he was already in danger for being a Jew in an area where the Nazis were roaming, he put himself in the line of fire and put himself in danger to rescue these Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

*The article was published in The Times of Israel on January 26, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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