Holocaust survivor helps raise funds to buy bed for oldest surviving Righteous Among the Nations

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, declared her to be one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1998, describing how she “at great personal risk, went to incredible lengths to help the Kokoszko family escape the Nazis."  

Mr Erlichster donated the money after a crowdfunding effort set up by Jonny Daniels, the British-Israeli founder of the From the Depths Holocaust commemoration group, which operates primarily in Poland.

Mr Daniels had spoken to Ms Danko’s family and had found out that they were unable to afford a special medical bed which she required.  

Mr Erlichster donated the money in the memory of another non-Jewish family, the Kulinskis, who saved his own family during the war, saying it was “part of our duty as Jews to recognize what some brave souls in Poland and elsewhere did.”

From the Depths described how pleased it was, as an organisation, to have been “able to show a small level of our gratitude as Jews and human beings and help her in a little way.”