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Kurt Lingens, M.D. (born in 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany) and his wife Ella Lingens, M.D. (born in 1907 in Vienna, Austria) were honored by Yad Vashem, which named them Righteous Among the Nations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Flickers of Light: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz )〕 At the age of 103, Kurt is the last living German who helped Jews survive the Holocaust. ==Life== Born on May 5, 1912, in Düsseldorf, Kurt Lingens was disqualified from all German academies in 1933 because of his membership in an anti-fascist group of students. His father, chief of police in Köln, Germany, was fired from his job in 1936 because he was associated with the Catholic, anti-Nazi ''Zentrumspartei'', and because he had tried to thwart Sturmabteilung persecution of Catholics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Flickers of Light: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz )〕 Ella, who was born in Vienna in 1908, had a doctoral degree in law and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. When the Nazis annexed Austria, she began to help Jews, especially students she knew through her studies. For example, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, she hid 10 Jews in her room. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Flickers of Light: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz )〕 In 1939, the Lingenses met and became friends with Baron Karl von Motesiczky, an anti-Nazi whose mother was Jewish, and who until that time had - like Ella - studied medicine in the University of Vienna. Motesiczky invited the Lingenses to live in a large house he owned in the Vienna suburb of Hinterbruhl during the summer months. At this house, the Baron often hosted Jews and members of the anti-Nazi resistance, and he, the Lingenses, and other collaborators hid and provided other assistance to Jews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Flickers of Light: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz )〕 In summer 1942, the Nazi regime began to deport Jewish people from Vienna. Many Jews asked the Lingens couple for help. Some of the Jewish people stored their valuables at the Lingens' home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Flickers of Light: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz )〕 Additionally, the anti-Nazi Polish underground movement, with which the couple worked together, asked them to help two Jewish couples to escape or to find a suitable hideaway. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kurt Lingens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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