Father Jacob Raile, S.J.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Raile Family</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Raile Family"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="041c8c00esnpes.png"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b6b0fb0.png" border=0 width="176" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Certificate of Honour given to Father Raile</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Father Jacob Raile, S.J.</div> <div> 1894-1949</div> <bR> <div> Father Raile was recognized by the State of Israel for helping to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.</div> <bR> <div> "His name shall be forever engraved on the honour wall in the garden of the righteous, at Yad Vashem Jerusalem," declared the document honoring him on February 24, 1992.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="236c8e40.png" border=0 width="200" height="228" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Father Raile was a native of Hungary and a member of the Hungarian Province of the Society of Jesus. Born on October 6, 1894, at Vaskut (Bacs-Kiskun) in Hungary, he entered the Jesuit Order (Society of Jesus) on August 14, 1912, and died on September 5, 1949, in Newark, New Jersey.</div> <bR> <div> He had escaped Hungary after the Communists took over the country and came to the United States where he taught German at Boston College High School before he was killed in a highway crash.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b8c7eb0.png" border=0 width="199" height="235" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> If you are a Raile in Hungary, please contact Penny Raile via <A HREF="mailto:PRaile@adelphia.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:PRaile@adelphia.net"><U>PRaile@adelphia.net</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY TREE"><U><IMG SRC="20e28280.png" border=0 width="40" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY TREE"><U>Back to Family Tree</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>