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This photo shows Tibor Almasy (centre), who served with the Hungarian army in World War II. Although he was allied with the Nazis during the war, he saved some 400 Jews from the gas chambers. This photo shows Almasy being honoured at an Armistice Day ceremony at Shaarei Tefillah synagogue on Bathurst St. As the liberating Russian army approached and his senior officers had fled westward, Almasy, a first lieutenant, found himself in charge of troops and forced-labor workers in... and around Sopron, a city in western Hungary. He defied orders from Fascist Hungarian officers to "liquidate" the Hungarian Jews under his command in a barracks or turn them over to the SS. Instead, he outfitted many of them in army uniforms and, as a further precaution, put up a typhus warning sign that successfully deterred the retreating Germans from entering and finding the Jews. Almasy, who fled Hungary during the 1956 revolution, moved to Toronto. He was presented with a scroll by the Jewish War Veterans of Canada at the synagogue ceremony as a "righteous gentile" who, "with great courage and without regard for his own life," saved hundreds of Jews. : Boris Spremo, 1987. #lestweforget

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In 2001, the Star sent a few photogs to major U.S. cities to capture the emotional aftermath of 9/11 from a Canadian perspective. This photograph of a sombre woman, Genetta Giudice, looking out the window of her Boston home, a tattered flag draped over the windowsill was one of the most poignant images captured. The gripping image, taken by reporter-photographer Jim Rankin and published on the front page of The Saturday Star four days after Sept. 11, shows Giudice as she watc...hes a prayer service in Boston's Little Italy on a day of worldwide mourning. A light rain began to fall, and with the exception of the hum of a couple of television satellite trucks, the street was silent. Some people wept, others clutched rosaries tight to their chests amongst a large overflow crowd in the street outside the church. Rankin zoomed in on Giudice in the window and shot over a dozen frames. It was one of those rare times when you instantly know you have captured something special, he said. After the service was over, Rankin went looking for her and met her brother, Nick Giudice, in a corner store below the apartment. The flag was his - a keepsake from the time he served in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. It had flown on the mast of the USS Sims, a destroyer that was sunk by the Japanese on May 7, 1942. Rankin’s photo placed second behind Thomas E. Franklin, who took first prize with his photo of three firefighters raising an American flag amid the rubble of the World Trade Center. The photo contest, held by the U.S. National Press Photographers Association, attracted nearly 23,000 entries in 37 categories from around the world. : @jleerankin