AP CAIRO — "A member of the family of the first Arab honored by Israel for risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust says the family isn’t interested in the recognition."
"The Egyptian doctor, Mohamed Helmy, was honored posthumously last month by Israel’s Holocaust memorial for hiding Jews in Berlin during the Nazis’ genocide, but a family member tracked down by The Associated Press this week in Cairo said her relatives wouldn’t accept the award, one of Israel’s most prestigious."
“If any other country offered to honor Helmy, we would have been happy with it,” Mervat Hassan, the wife of Helmy’s great-nephew, told the AP during an interview at her home in Cairo this week."
Washington Post via Tweeter's Yair Rosenberg
6 comments:
Assholes.
It could cost them their lives.
Impossible to say what this family thinks because any show of gratitude for the award would mean no Helmy family future.
When I say assholes, I mean the whole bloody lot of them.
The whole culture.
I lived in Riyadh for several years so I know of what I speak.
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