Florian Tschögl was one of the

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, awarded from

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. In 1943, while serving in the

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, Tschögl was ordered to guard captured Soviet soldiers in a prison camp in Moledeczno,

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. There he met the Jewish Arzichowski family, which had been denounced by Polish antisemites as plotting against

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soldiers. Tschögl resolved to save the family from

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and death and denied the claims against them. From 1943 to 1944 he provided the family with food and supplies. When other soldiers tried to imprison one of the family's daughters, Sarah, Tschögl sheltered her in his house. The Arzichowskis survived the war.Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher, Band 1
von

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, Daniel Fraenkel und Jakob Boru

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