Who saved the most jews in ww2

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          Elisabeth Abegg

          Germany




          Elisabeth Abegg, born in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace (today in France), was a history teacher. She was deeply influenced by the Christian-universalist teachings of Albert Schweitzer, the great Alsatian theologian, humanist and medical doctor.

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          6. Abegg moved to Berlin and began teaching at the Luisen Mädchenschule, a fashionable Berlin girls’ school. She endeavored to impress her humanistic beliefs, centering on the sanctity of human life, on her students, many of whom came from Jewish homes.

          When the Nazis rose to power, Abegg soon came into conflict with the newly Nazi-appointed director of the school. She had to change schools, and in  was forced to retire prematurely following a denunciation. Despite her being marked by the authorities as politically unreliable, Abegg would not be deterred from maintaining contact with her Jewish friends and former students.

          With the deportation to the East of her close friend of 40 years, Anna Hirschbe