Anton was the Village "Idiot" but He Saved The Zeiger Family from the Nazis

 

His name was Anton.

The townspeople of Zborow, Poland called him “the village idiot.”
No family. No friends. He lived alone in a crumbling shack on the edge of town—forgotten by the world.

But when the Nazis came in July 1941 and slaughtered 1,000 Jewish men, then herded the… pic.twitter.com/sAiSOLo1JV

— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) July 4, 2025