LIVES SAVED - A POWERFUL REMINDER OF HUMANISM
Updated 2011-09-18
Thursday, September 15, Vilnius - President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the Life Saving Cross to fifty five Lithuanian citizens who helped save Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II.
"In those days of horror and injustice they did not give in to the policy of hate and brutality enforced by a foreign power and did not hesitate to resist it. They all deserve the greatest of respect and gratitude. In the face of death, they were ready to sacrifice themselves to save others," the President said at the awards ceremony.
She underlined that even though most of those honored at the ceremony received the Life Saving Cross posthumously, they would forever remain a powerful example of dignity to all of us.
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