June 2018 Portrait of the Month - Edit Schechter

Edit Schechter

In honor of her birthday month, we are featuring a portrait of Edit Schechter, who was a member of a resistance movement in Hungary. Edit and other activists created fake papers and IDs for Jews in danger of being deported to concentration camps. They smuggled people across borders to areas not occupied by Germany, and they set up safe houses for children. Edit was in considerable danger for her work, and several members of her group were caught and sent to prisons and camps as punishment for their activism. Still, Edit and many others like her across Europe stood up to hatred and violence, to protect those in danger.