Righteous Among the Nations

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Gadi Eisenkot greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of his son, M.-Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot on December 8, 2023.
Jaroslawa Lewicka celebrating her 91st birthday.

Jaroslawa Lewicka, Israel’s last living Righteous Among the Nations, dies at 91

Israeli soldiers stand guard during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026

‘A Call to Courage’: Czech parliament to pay historic tribute to 129 ‘Righteous Among the Nations’

Ellen Monique Tjittes, a 56-year-old Dutch Christian whose grandfather and great-grandparents were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.

Dutch descendant of Righteous Among the Nations fights for Israeli residency


Yad Vashem commissions musical tribute to Chiune Sugihara

Symphony No. 6, “Vessels of Light,” as the performance is called, is dedicated to the heroic deeds of Chiune Sugihara.

 THE WORLD premiere of ‘Symphony No. 6, Vessels of Light’ in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Murals of Righteous Among the Nations created across New York

Tibor Baranski set up safe houses and printed official looking but fraudulent passes to get Jews out of the country, saving more than 3,000 lives.

 Carol Romeo touching a mural of Righteous Among the Nations Tibor Baranski.

Jerusalem names plaza after Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands during Holocaust

“This small corner of Jerusalem, the eternal city, now carries the name of a hero,” says Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion.

Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion inaugurates Aristides de Souza Mendes square

Mendes issued roughly 30,000 visas and passports to refugees who fled Nazi Germany – including 10,000 visas to Jews fleeing their certain death in Europe.

   Jerusalem: Mayor Moshe Leon inaugurates a square named after the Righteous Among the Nations Aristides de Souza Mendes

German supermarket chain promotes Holocaust memoir as 'relaxing holiday read'

The UK website for German supermarket chain Aldi called Holocaust book 'Schindler's Ark' "a gripping story that will have you hooked as your body soaks in those sun rays."

 Supermarket chain Aldi faced backlash after their website posted a listing for Holocaust book 'Schindler's Ark,' describing it as a "relaxing holiday read."

How my family found refuge in 2 villages in the Holocaust

After the fall of France, the family kept on its Jewish children, taking in desperate newcomers after September 1943, when the Germans occupied the Grenoble area.

 An archival photograph of the Preventorium in Prélenfrey in southern France, where Jewish children were hidden during the Holocaust.

These doctors invented a fake disease to save Jews and keep Nazis away

The film “Syndrome K” tells how three doctors in Rome saved a group of Jews from the Nazis in 1943 and 1944 by inventing a fake infectious disease called Syndrome K.

The outside of Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome, where doctors shielded Jews by making up a fake disease during World War II.

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust and the Righteous Gentile

These three people are only a few drops in the ocean, but their humanitarian action served to help purify the poison in the Nazi sea.

 An aerial view of Yad Vashem

Jozef Walaszczyk, rescuer of Jews in Holocaust, dies at 102

Jozef Walaszczyk fell in love with a Jewish woman and became compelled to rescue her and dozens of other Jews from the Holocaust.

 Jozef Walaszczyk, a 100-year-old who saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, Jan. 28, 2020.

Andrée Geulen, Belgian woman who rescued Jewish children, dies at 100

Andrée Geulen was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1989.

 Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, a Belgian woman who rescued some 300 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust, is embraced by Henri Lederhandler, one of the children she rescued, in front of the exhibit on her efforts in the museum of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, April 18, 2