Eleven Jewish lives were saved during World War II by Roman Catholic Jan Misiewicz, left. Among them that of Leon Kahane, right, who is now the rabbi at Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach. In this ceremony at the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Pico Boulevard, the two kindle a memorial flame to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Misiewicz was honored at the ceremony for his "righteous conduct" in hiding the 11 in the church of which his father was deacon in Mikulince, in eastern Poland. Misiewicz is visiting the United States from Poland. Photo dated: September 21, 1983.
Misiewicz, Jan Kahane, Leon Simon Wiesenthal Center Holocaust memorials--California--Los Angeles Holocaust survivors--California--Los Angeles Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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