Righteous Among The Nations
During the Nazi occupation he hid Jews in his home. At the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem there is a tree planted commemorating Sofia and Kazys Binkis as among the "Righteous Among the Nations". (Number 660)
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“Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the
Lord,”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 10–11)
“And who in time knowes whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
This gaine of our best glorie shal be sent,
T’inrich unknowing Nations with our stores?
What worlds in th’yet unformed Occident
May come refin’d with th’accents that are ours?”
—Samuel Daniel (c. 1562–1619)