Jerzy Jan Lerski is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Jerzy Jan Lerski as Polish lawyer and academic (1917-1992).
Jerzy Jan Lerski was born at Lviv in 1917. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at University of Oxford and Lviv University.
By occupation Jerzy Jan Lerski was historian, university teacher and political scientist - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1983) and Righteous Among the Nations (1985).
Jerzy Jan Lerski died in 1992, aged 75. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta — 1983
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1985
- Worked as historian, university teacher and political scientist
- Educated at University of Oxford and Lviv University
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