Roberts Seduls (February 20, 1906 – March 10, 1945) and Johanna Sedule (1910–1987) were the family of the Righteous among Nations (recognition date: December 2, 1981) who saved eleven Jews in Liepāja during the Holocaust in Latvia.Seduls Robert & Sedule Johanna, Yad Vashem collectionsIn Cellars, Pits and Attics Robert and Johanna Seduls, Yad Vashem exhibitions
Among the sheltered was a woman with a three-year-old daughter, Ada. Seduls arranged her shelter with Otilija Schimelpfenig, a widow of German descent. In 2000s Ada applied for the Righteous among Nations for Otilija Schimelpfenig,Robert and Johanna Sedul, Otilija Schimelpfening, Yad Vashem stgories granted on April 26, 2006.Otilija Schimelpfenig Certificate of Honour, Yad Vashem files
Roberts Seduls was killed during a Soviet air raid. His wife continued to care for the rescued Jews.
The diary of one of the rescued, Kalman Linkimer, originally written in Yiddish, was translated in English."The Linkimer diaries", The Baltic Times, February 2, 2005Rebecca Margolis, The Linkimer diary: How 11 Jews survived the Holocaust, 2008
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