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Austrian soldier Anton Schmid was executed for rescuing Jews from the Ponary massacre in Vilnius.
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Anton Schmid
Austrian soldier (1900–1942)
Anton Schmid was an Austrian Wehrmacht recruit who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. A devout but apolitical Roman Catholic and an electrician by profession, Schmid was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and later into the Wehrmacht during…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ponary massacre
1941–1944 Nazi murders in Vilnius, Lithuania
The Ponary massacre, or the Paneriai massacre, was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)