(Washington Times-CNN) Dave Boyer - President Barack Obama, speaking at the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Wednesday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, paid tribute to Americans who saved Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, bestowed its Righteous Among the Nations award posthumously on Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds of Knoxville, Tennessee. As a prisoner of war in January 1945, Sgt. Edmonds was told by his Nazi captors to reveal which of his fellow prisoners of war were Jewish. At the barrel of a gun, Sgt. Edmonds refused, declaring, "We are all Jews." Also honored was Lois Gunden, a French teacher from Indiana, who founded a children's home on the French coast that acted as a safe house for Jewish families.
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