red, photographs of Jewish victims of the Nazis in the Hall of Names of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
Yad Vashem said it was disappointed at the rejection of the honour stating: 'We regret that political sentiment seems to have overcome the human aspect, and we hope that one day the latter will prevail.
'In a world of total moral collapse, there was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values. Bystanders were the rule; rescuers were the exception. Helmy was one of them.'
Dr Helmy died in 1982. After the war, he stayed in Germany with his fiancée whom he married. His Egyptian relatives sometimes visited, including a great nephew and his wife who now rejects the award on behalf of surviving relatives.
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