The Bishop’s Gambit

During the Second World War, the Nazis took control of the Greek island of Zakynthos, and demanded a list of Jews for deportation to the concentration camps. The mayor and the bishop of Zakynthos handed in a list, but the only names on it were their own; meanwhile the island’s Jews were hidden among the islanders, and survived the war.

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