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This image from 1943 shows Jews escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers (Keystone) Swiss acknowledge those who helped Jews flee Nazis - Yahoo! News Switzerland said it had finally finished the process of rehabilitating more than a hundred people punished during WWII for having helped Jews escape Nazi persecution. But only one of the 137 people vindicated by the report actually lived to see their name cleared. “All these people are today dead,” Alexandre Schneebeli, the secretary of the Swiss parliament’s rehabilitation commission, told AFP.

This image from 1943 shows Jews escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers (Keystone)

Swiss acknowledge those who helped Jews flee Nazis - Yahoo! News

Switzerland said it had finally finished the process of rehabilitating more than a hundred people punished during WWII for having helped Jews escape Nazi persecution.

But only one of the 137 people vindicated by the report actually lived to see their name cleared.

“All these people are today dead,” Alexandre Schneebeli, the secretary of the Swiss parliament’s rehabilitation commission, told AFP.

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