Бингхем IV, Хайрам

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Автор статьи:	Л.Гроервейдл

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Bingham did not speak much about his wartime activities. His own family had little knowledge of them until after Bingham's death in 1988. In 1991, Bingham's widow Rose and son Thomas found Marseille documents in the Connecticut farmhouse which they donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Several years later,Bingham's youngest son found documents in a cupboard behind a chimney and family members continued to unearth documents at the farmhouse. The materials told of Bingham's struggle to save German and Jewish refugees from death, details long hidden from the public.

Содержание 1 Honors 2 Источники и ссылки 3 Библиография 4 Примечания

Honors

After considering Bingham's deeds during the war years in Marseille for a number years, Yad Vashem issued the Bingham family a letter of appreciation on March 7, 2005. Although not a Righteous Among the Nations designation, the letter noted the "humanitarian disposition" of Bingham IV "at a time of persecution of Jews by the Vichy regime in France.... [in] contrast to certain other officials who rather acted suspiciously toward Jewish refugees wishing to enter the United States."^[1]

On June 27, 2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a posthumous "Constructive Dissent" award to Bingham's children at an American Foreign Service Officers Association awards ceremony in Washington, DC. Since December 1968 his son Robert Kim Bingham, Sr. had lobbied the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp depicting his father in recognition of his humanitarian deeds. After the proposal received wide bipartisan support in Congress, a commemorative stamp portraying Hiram Bingham IV as a "Distinguished American Diplomat" was issued on May 30, 2006.^[2]

On October 27, 2006, the Anti-Defamation League posthumously presented Bingham its "Courage to Care" award at the ADL’s national conference in Atlanta. In November 2006, the U.S. Episcopal Church added Bingham to a list of "American Saints" published in the book A Year with American Saints with a summary of his life and character.

On March 28, 2011, the Simon Wiesenthal Center posthumously awarded Bingham the "Medal of Valor" in New York City with a film Tribute. 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.

Here's the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6MfzibYZFU.

The Wall Street Journal wrote of the event: "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 . . . ." Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2011. See also Hiram Bingham IV home page at http://www.hirambinghamrescuer.com

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Источники и ссылки

• Статья "Hiram Bingham IV" в английском разделе Википедии
• Hero Quietly Did The Right Thing, CBS Evening News, May 30, 2006
• Saving the Jews of Nazi France, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2009

Библиография

• Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government to Save Lives, by Robert Kim Bingham. http://www.hirambinghamrescuer.com

ISBN 0961360232

Примечания

(1) "Surrender on Demand" V. Fry, 1945 French translation " La Liste Noire", Plon ed., Paris, 1997 (2) "La liste de Hiram Bigham", C. Wainstain, "L'Arche", Nov. 2007