The Academy Museum tries to correct a glaring omission.

The rescue of the Lubavitcher rebbe, and the last stand of the Lublin yeshiva.

The story of Abraham Kotsuji.

Janina Spinner Mehlberg.

Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer.

Holocaust survivor, devotee of free speech, and British nobleman.

And the anti-Semitic Polish writer who backed it.

Rescuer, convert, rebbetzin, spy.

In the midst of World War II, a group of exiled yeshiva students posed an urgent question.

Isn’t Varian Fry’s heroism more interesting than his homosexuality?

The Polish underground largely held the Jews in contempt.

A rich 1,800-year history.

Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

And to keep Jews from leaving Europe.