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Eleven Jewish lives

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Order Number	00056901
Title	Eleven Jewish lives
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box Simon Weisenthal Center.
Date	1983
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	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.
Subject	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.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection