Egyptian-born Dr. Mohamed Helmy is the only Arab to be honored by Yad Vashem as a righteous among the nations – yet the author of a new biography says his actions were not unique
When German-Jewish journalist Ronen Steinke first learned about the sole Arab to be named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, he had no idea that there was much more to the long-forgotten story of Dr. Mohamed Helmy.
An Egyptian-born urologist who was honored by the Jerusalem-based Holocaust memorial and museum in 2013, Helmy risked his life hiding a Jewish teenage girl named Anna Boros in Berlin during World War II.
