The Holocaust lasted from 1933-1945. Since then, incredible stories of people helping Jews and other persecuted groups survive have continued to be revealed, like the “Japanese Schindler.”

Recently, another amazing Holocaust survival story emerged in Holland. A Christian woman named Jacqueline Meents-Lenstra (who also went by Jacqueline Mintz) saved a baby boy named Efraim (Ephraim) Kochba after his parents, Martha van Coevorden and Ziegfried Fritz, were detained by Nazi forces.

To do so, Meents-Lenstra collaborated with his parents by faking a pregnancy and vowing to care for him if anything should happen to them. For her courage, Meents-Lenstra was honored earlier this month by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, with the Righteous Among the Nations honor. It is Israel’s highest honor for non-Jews who saved Jews during the........

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