Volume 4 No 1 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

Honoring Those Who Fight Antisemitism
Jerzy Buzek
(1940– )
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) bestowed the first Prix du Judaïsme
Européen—Prix Lord Jakobovits on former Polish prime minister Jerzy Buzek in a
ceremony held at Brussels’ Great Synagogue of Europe. “As both Polish PM and
European Parliament president, he built bridges, vigorously fought antisemitism,
helped to keep up the memory of the Shoah, and was a supporter of the State of
Israel,” CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said in a press release.
Raymond Aubrac
(1914-2012)
Raymond Aubrac, born Raymond Samuel to Jewish parents who were deported to
Auschwitz, with his wife helped set up Liberation-Sud (Liberation South), one of
the first networks of the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of France. Aubrac
was captured along with celebrated Resistance hero Jean Moulin on June 21, 1943,
when police raided a Resistance meeting spot. Lucie Aubrac helped orchestrate her
husband’s escape from a Lyon prison following his arrest. She persuaded the local
Gestapo leader, Klaus Barbie, to let her meet with her imprisoned husband. During
the meeting, she told Aubrac of the Resistance’s plan to attack the German truck
that was to transfer him to another prison, then she herself led the armed commando
attack that sprung both her husband and Moulin. After the war, Lucie
Aubrac returned to the classroom, teaching history and geography, while Raymond
went on to a successful career in government and banking.
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