Hiram Bingham Tribute (See also www.hirambinghamrescuer.com.)

Simon Wiesenthal Center video Tribute to Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV on March 28, 2011. The film shows the Nazis on the march in Europe and how U.S. Vice-Consul Harry Bingham rose to the dangerous occasion to save lives. Harry Bingham was an American WWII diplomat rescuer who defied his government to save many refugees from the Holocaust while he was posted in Marseilles during 1940-1941, and who received the Medal of Valor posthumously from the Center at the annual Awards Dinner on March 28, 2011 in NYC, where the film was first shown.

[The Wall Street Journal noted: "More than 450 supporters of the Simon Wiesenthal Center gathered for the 2011 Humanitarian Award Dinner. The Medal of Valor was awarded posthumously to Sir Winston Churchill, Hiram Bingham IV, and Pope John Paul II, and the Humanitarian Award was given to General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt." Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2011).

COURAGEOUS DISSENT: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives by Robert Kim Bingham, son of Hiram Bingham IV (at Amazon.com Books)

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• Holocost hero
• Righteous diplomat
• Hiram Bingham IV postage stamp
• refugee shelter
• escape from Hitler
• Poland
• Courageous Dissent

[riverice7]

A brave man indeed.

[5Mariner]

Hiram

Thankyou

[stonezone08]

Sounds like a great human.

[georgealbert444]

Some history of our Jew hating US State Dept...the tradition continues today as illegal immigrants from Mexico are not being targeted while Jewish immigrants from Israel are now being actively targeted for deportation by the State Dept and the Whitehouse