Rescuer dead
Herman Fritz Graebe, a German official who rescued hundreds of Jews from death under the Nazi regime, has died aged 85. Mr Graebe, a civilian engineer with the Third Reich railway administration, was the focus of the book “The Moses of Rovno” by a Presbyterian minister Douglas Huneke, of Belvedere, California. Huneke depicted Mr Graebe’s confrontation with Nazis when they planned a progrom in the Ukrainian city of Rovno and his construction of a secret network that rescued hundreds of Jews and peasants. Mr Graebe who testified against the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials, settled in San Francisco in 1947 and started an' engineering company. — San Francisco.
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Press, 24 April 1986, Page 19
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