Roberts Seduls and Johanna Sedule

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Roberts Seduls (February 20, 1906 – March 10, 1945) and Johanna Sedule (1910–1987) were the family of the Righteous among Nations (recognition date: December 2, 1981) who saved eleven Jews in Liepāja during the Holocaust in Latvia.[1][2]

Among the sheltered was a woman with a three-year-old daughter, Ada. Seduls arranged her shelter with Otilija Schimelpfenig, a widow of German descent. In 2000s Ada applied for the Righteous among Nations for Otilija Schimelpfenig,[1][3] granted on April 26, 2006.[4]

Roberts Seduls was killed during a Soviet air raid. His wife continued to care for the rescued Jews.[1][2]

The diary of one of the rescued, Kalman Linkimer, originally written in Yiddish, was translated in English.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c Seduls Robert & Sedule Johanna, Yad Vashem collections
  2. ^ a b In Cellars, Pits and Attics Robert and Johanna Seduls, Yad Vashem exhibitions
  3. ^ Robert and Johanna Sedul, Otilija Schimelpfening, Yad Vashem stgories
  4. ^ Otilija Schimelpfenig Certificate of Honour, Yad Vashem files
  5. ^ "The Linkimer diaries", The Baltic Times, February 2, 2005
  6. ^ Rebecca Margolis, The Linkimer diary: How 11 Jews survived the Holocaust, 2008