The records in the closet revealed that while serving at his post Hiram helped save at least 2.500 people from the Nazis. including the artist. Marc Chagall and Nobel Prize winning biochemist Otto Meyerhoff. During these years. this courageous individual issued papers that gave safe passage to Jewish and nonJewish refugees. He also personally escorted dozens of people across the border into Spain. It is of no small interest that this man of principle acted in direct opposition to official State Department orders that inhibited immigration of refugees to the United States. Hiram Binghams action defied the Nazi war machine. Vichy France and his own Nations State Department.
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