Vad Yashem Gives Award to "New Schindler"

The Israeli organization Vad Yashem gave out their "Righteous Among the Nations" award to a Nazi officer named Karl Plagge, a major in the German war machine. He ran a vehicle workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and there gathered many Jews who worked under relatively good conditions and were sheltered from the slaughter of the SS. The Jewish ghetto in Vilnius was destroyed and most of its inhabitants slaughtered, but Plagge's work saved the lives of perhaps hundreds who would have died.