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Yad Vashem on Wednesday recognized a Romanian reserves officer as a Righteous Gentile, a non-Jew that saved Jews during the Holocaust, for preventing the deportation of Romanian Jews to Nazi death camps.
Theodor Criveanu, as a reserves officer in the Romanian army, gave out work permits to numerous Jews in the ghetto, beyond the assigned limit and including those who were not fit to work, in order to prevent them from being sent to the camps. Criveanu ended up marrying the daughter of one of the people he saved.
His son accepted the award on his behalf.
"My father's life was based on justness, correctness. He was a great humanitarian, that was his nature," his son said at the induction ceremony. "He was a gift from God for my mother's family and to so many more."
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