rescuers of jews
Vaišnoras Adolfas
ADOLFAS VAIŠNORAS
BRONĖ VAIŠNORIENĖ
Adolfas Vaišnoras lived in Kaunas with his wife, Bronislava (Bronė). After learning from people imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto that Adolfas Vaišnoras had compassion for the Jews, Salomonas Nechmodas found him and asked for help. For several months, Adolfas and Bronė Vaišnorai hosted Salomonas Nechmodas, who had briefly escaped from his forced labour in the city, in their home, fed him, gave him food for his wife Feiga, and promised to give them shelter in times of need. In the spring of 1944, the Nechmodai escaped from the ghetto and came to the Vaišnorai, where they hid until a safer hiding place became available with Mykolas Šimelis, the forester of the Žiežmariai forestry district.
In the Strošiūnai forest, where Mykolas Šimelis' family lived, together with twelve other Jews hiding with the Šimelis family, in July 1944, Salomonas and Feiga Nechmodai awaited the Nazi withdrawal from Lithuania. When the war ended, the Nechmodai left Lithuania and settled in Israel.
On November 7, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Adolfas Vaišnoras and Bronė Vaišnorienė as the Righteous Among the Nations.
BRONĖ VAIŠNORIENĖ
Adolfas Vaišnoras lived in Kaunas with his wife, Bronislava (Bronė). After learning from people imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto that Adolfas Vaišnoras had compassion for the Jews, Salomonas Nechmodas found him and asked for help. For several months, Adolfas and Bronė Vaišnorai hosted Salomonas Nechmodas, who had briefly escaped from his forced labour in the city, in their home, fed him, gave him food for his wife Feiga, and promised to give them shelter in times of need. In the spring of 1944, the Nechmodai escaped from the ghetto and came to the Vaišnorai, where they hid until a safer hiding place became available with Mykolas Šimelis, the forester of the Žiežmariai forestry district.
In the Strošiūnai forest, where Mykolas Šimelis' family lived, together with twelve other Jews hiding with the Šimelis family, in July 1944, Salomonas and Feiga Nechmodai awaited the Nazi withdrawal from Lithuania. When the war ended, the Nechmodai left Lithuania and settled in Israel.
On November 7, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Adolfas Vaišnoras and Bronė Vaišnorienė as the Righteous Among the Nations.