Florian Tschögl was one of the Righteous among the Nations

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Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

, awarded from Yad Vashem

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. In 1943, while serving in the Wehrmacht

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, Tschögl was ordered to guard captured Soviet soldiers in a prison camp in Moledeczno, Belarus

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. There he met the Jewish Arzichowski family, which had been denounced by Polish antisemites of plotting against German

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 soldiers.

Tschögl resolved to save the family from deportation

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and death and denied the claims against the Arzichowski family. From 1943 to 1944 he provided the family with food and supplies. When other soldiers tried to imprison one of the family's daughters, Sarah, Tschögl sheltered her in his house. The Arzichowkskis survived the war.