WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2015 – Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth, will accept the Washington Oxi Day Foundation’s 2015 Metropolitan Chrysostomos Award posthumously for his mother Princess Alice.

The Washington Oxi Day Foundation is recognizing the extraordinary courage Princess Alice displayed as she risked certain death. Princess Alice shielded an entire Jewish family, the Cohens, across the street from Gestapo Headquarters in Nazi-occupied Greece during World War II. Periodically, the Nazis came to her home searching for Jewish people but she masterfully protected them each time she was questioned. Princess Alice is recognized in Israel at Yad Vashem as one of the “Righteous Among The Nations”.

Princess Alice of Battenberg married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and lived in Greece, where her son Prince Philip was born. After WWII, Princess Alice stayed in Greece and established the order of nuns called the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. She returned during the last two years of her life to Buckingham Palace and remained a Greek Orthodox Nun.

Prince Philip joins a highly esteemed list of world famous individuals who have accepted the Washington Oxi Day Foundations’ Metropolitan Chrysostomos Award, which commemorates courageous defiance against Adolf Hitler’s seemingly unstoppable Nazis. Other award recipients of international note include: former President of Israel Shimon Peres (the 2014 recipient); Noble Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel (2012) and American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris (2013). The Washington Oxi Day Foundation recognizes uncommon bravery and celebrates individuals who display the kind of courage shown by the Greek people during WWII and the Holocaust. The Metropolitan Chrysostomos Award, helps keep alive this admirable and important part of Greek history.

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