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Honour for new "Schindler"

JERUSALEM:, For decades, Pearl Good kept the secret of the motor repair shop on Subocz Street and of the German army officer who declared her an essential war worker when really she was just darning socks. It was only when the 75-year-old Holocaust survivor returned to the street in Vilnius, Lithuania, six years ago that a tale of heroism began to be uncovered that has led to an unusual ceremony in Jerusalem on Monday to honour the commandant of a Nazi slave labour camp where hundreds of Jews died but many others were saved. Israel's Holocaust memorial council, Yad Vashem, will declare Major Karl Plagge righteous among the nations, alongside men such as Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, for an elaborate deception that saved about 250 Jewish lives. Major Plagge, an engineer, joined the Nazi party in 1931 in the belief that it would restore Germany's fortunes but he became disillusioned with its racial ideology.—

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