1891. Paul Gruninger was born
Photo: yadvashem.org 125 years ago, on October 27, 1891, Paul Gruninger, the head of the Swiss canton, St. Gallen, who saved 3601 Jews from Germany and Austria, was born to the "righteous of the peoples of the world". After the Switzerland government in August 1938 closed the country's borders for refugees from Germany, Gruninger, along with several subordinates, began to fake the entrance documents of Jews.