List of Righteous Among the Nations by country
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This is a partial list of some of the most prominent Righteous among the Nations
per country of origin, recognized by Yad Vashem
, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. These people risked their lives or their liberty and position to help Jews during the Holocaust and indeed, some of them have been punished by death as a result. By the end of 2010 Yad Vashem recognized 23,788 Righteous Among the Nations from 45 countries.
requested that all its members who participated in the rescue of the Danish Jews
should not be listed individually, but commemorated as one group, according to the Righteous among the Nations website.
are not on the List of the Righteous among the Nations though Trujillo’s Dominican Republic at the Evian Conference in 1938 was the only country to offer to take in Jewish refugees (100,000). The Dominican Republic admitted over eight-hundred Jewish refugees before Germany curbed the exodus. Two years prior to the Evian Conference Trujillo ordered the killing of over 30,000 Dominicans, most of Haitian descent. )
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....
per country of origin, recognized by Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. These people risked their lives or their liberty and position to help Jews during the Holocaust and indeed, some of them have been punished by death as a result. By the end of 2010 Yad Vashem recognized 23,788 Righteous Among the Nations from 45 countries.
Netherlands (total: 5,009)
- Miep GiesMiep GiesMiep Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and several family friends in an attic annex above Anne's father's place of business from the Nazis during World War II...
and her husband Jan Gies, helpers of Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt... - Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten BoomCornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at Scheveningen prison where they were first held...
- Frits PhilipsFrits PhilipsFrederik Jacques "Frits" Philips was the fourth chairman of the board of directors of the Dutch electronics company Philips, which his uncle and father founded...
of Philips Electronics - Johan BendersJohan BendersJohan Benders was a Dutch teacher at the Amsterdam Lyceum, who encouraged his students to manufacture false identification papers and food ration cards for Jews in order to help them escape persecution by the occupying Nazi Germany. His wife, Gerritdina Letteboer, and he sheltered Jews in their...
& his wife, Gerritdina Benders-Letterboer - Johan Hendrik WeidnerJohan Hendrik WeidnerJohan Hendrik Weidner was a highly decorated hero of World War II.-Early life:...
- Victor KuglerVictor KuglerVictor Kugler was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the name Mr...
- Jaap PenraatJaap PenraatJaap Penraat was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War.Penraat was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As a child, he helped Jewish neighbors by switching lights for them on Shabbat, which they were forbidden to do...
- Walter SusskindWalter SusskindJan Walter Susskind was a Czech-born British conductor.-Biography:Susskind was born in Prague, Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic. His father was a Viennese music critic and his Czech mother was a piano teacher. At the State Conservatorium he studied under composer Josef Suk, the son-in-law...
- Johan van HulstJohan van HulstJohan Wilhelm van Hulst is a Dutch emeritus professor and retired politician of the dissolved Christian Historical Union , now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal and an emeritus professor of education.-Early life:...
- Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer saved some 10.000 Jewish children, a.o. directly from Adolf EichmannAdolf EichmannAdolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...
- Jan ZwartendijkJan ZwartendijkJan Zwartendijk was a Dutch businessman and diplomat who helped Jews escape Lithuania during World War II.Zwartendijk directed the Philips plants in Lithuania. On June 19, 1940, he was also a part-time an acting consul of the Netherlands - or, to be exact, of the Dutch government-in-exile...
Saved 3 000 - Alida Bosshardt, also known as Majoor Bosshardt (Salvation ArmySalvation ArmyThe Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
) - Le Grand-Franken, Joop (nickname). Official name Johanna Le Grand and her two brave brothers (the FRANKEN family): Wim Franken & Sim Franken
- Liesbeth en Ariën Visscher-Valckenier Suringar
- Marion Pritchard
- Tine zur Kleinsmiede
- Jacobus Rijnbout & his wife Eelkje Hattuma, honored posthumously on April 20, 2004
- Jan Roorda and his wife Rien Roorda
- Dirk van Schaik
- The Sietsma brothers, Hein & Henk
- Joop WesterweelJoop WesterweelJoop Westerweel was a progressive schoolteacher who became a Dutch World War II resistance leader, the head of the Westerweel Group....
and his wife Wilhelmina - Joop Woortman & Jaap Musch, from the N.V. Group
- Jan Giliam
- Clara Dijkstra
- Petrus & Afra Dubelaar, Amsterdam North, and Hendrikus & Alida Dubelaar, Santport; from the Westerweel GroupWesterweel GroupThe Westerweel Group was a resistance group that operated during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Led by a Dutch Christian Joop Westerweel and Jewish German refugee Joachim Simon, the group was initiated in August of 1942 and its first objective was to hide a Jewish youth group that were...
. [Hidden: Sam Goldberg, mother, grandmother] - Barent Binnenkant
- Dr. Gerrit J. ten Zythoff
- Sipke and Femmigje Woudstra
- Dirk BoonstraDirk BoonstraDirk Boonstra was a police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II...
- Johannes and Janke de Vries
- Johtje Vos and her husband Aart Vos
- Jan Van Hulst
- Binne Roorda
France (total: 2,991)
- Pierre Granal and his wife, Rose Granal
- André and Magda Trocmé
- Alexandre Glasberg & his brother Vila Glasberg (Victor Vermont)
- Edouard Theis
- René and Hélène Bindel, their son Jean, and Clotilde Pava
- Jacques EllulJacques EllulJacques Ellul was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the interaction between Christianity and politics....
(2001) - Camille Ernst
- Father Pierre-Marie BenoitPère Marie-BenoîtPère Marie-Benoît , born Pierre Péteul, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who helped smuggle approximately 4,000 Jews into safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France...
- Father Jean Fleury
- Marie-Rose Gineste
- Pierre-Marie GerlierPierre-Marie GerlierPierre-Marie Gerlier was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1937 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937.-Biography:...
, Cardinal of Lyon (1981) - Dr. Adélaïde Hautval
- Jean Deffaugt
- Raoul Laporterie
- Pastor Jean Séverin Lemaire
- Gilbert Lesage
- Anne-Marie Mingat and Marthe Lerme
- Germaine Ribière
- Mother MariaMother MariaMaria Skobtsova , known as Mother Maria , Saint Mary of Paris, born Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko , Kuzmina-Karavayeva by her first marriage, Skobtsova by her second marriage, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II...
- Archbishop of Toulouse, Monseigneur Jules-Géraud SaliègeJules-Géraud SaliègeJules-Géraud Saliège was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toulouse from 1928 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.-Biography:...
- Bishop of Montauban, Monseigneur Pierre Marie Théas
- Edouard Vigneron
- Marc BoegnerMarc BoegnerMarc Boegner, commonly known as pasteur Boegner , was a theologist, influential pastor, notable member of the French Resistance, and a French essayist, and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement.-Biography:...
Ukraine (total: 2,246)
- Maria Podolian and her mother
- Nikolay Leschinger
- Yekaterina Panchenko Movchan
- Raisa Makarevich and her mother, Feokla Levitkaya
Belgium (total: 1,512)
- Joseph AndréJoseph AndréJoseph André was a Catholic priest of the diocese of Namur, Belgium. He was declared Righteous among the Nations by the government of Israel in 1968.- Early life :...
(1908-1973), Catholic priest of Namur - Queen Elisabeth of the BelgiansElisabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965)Elisabeth of Bavaria , was the queen consort of Albert I of Belgium and was the mother of Leopold III of Belgium and grandmother of Baudouin I of Belgium and Albert II of Belgium.-Family:Born in Possenhofen Castle, her father was Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, an ophthalmologist of...
- Robert de FoyRobert de FoyRobert Herman Alfred de Foy was a Belgian magistrate, and head of the Belgian State Security Service, before and after the Second World War.-Personal life:...
, Head of State Security - Andree Geulen-HerscoviciAndree Geulen-HerscoviciAndrée Geulen-Herscovici is a Belgian woman who, with others, rescued approximately 1,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust.In 1942, the then Ms. Geulen was working as a schoolteacher in Brussels when the Gestapo arrived to arrest the Jewish children. She decided to join Jewish rescue...
- Jean-Baptiste JanssensJean-Baptiste JanssensJean-Baptiste Janssens was the twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium.-Early Life and schooling:...
(1889-1964), Superior General of the Jesuits - Alphonse Lambrette (1884-1970)
- Jean & Editj Maertens de Noordhout
- Jeanne de Mulienaere
- Yvonne NevéjeanYvonne NevéjeanYvonne Feyerick Nevéjean was one of the leaders of an organisation that helped hide Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II. She was instrumental in hiding about 4000 children, many with Catholic families and institutions. After the war she was honoured inside and outside...
- Henri ReyndersHenri ReyndersHenri Reynders was a Belgian priest credited with saving 400 Jews during the Holocaust.- Early life and study :...
- Suzanne SpaakSuzanne SpaakSuzanne Spaak , World War II heroine.Suzanne Spaak was born into a prosperous Belgian banking family sometime around 1905...
- Marie and Emile Taquet Marie Taquet-Martens and her husband, Major Emile Taquet
- Father Henri Van Oostayen (1906 -1945)
Hungary (total: 725)
- József Antall (the father of the prime minister of 1990)
- Vilmos AporVilmos AporBlessed Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was the Bishop of Győr during World War II who became famous for protesting against the persecution of the Hungarian Jews...
- Zoltan Bay
- Kálmán FerenczfalviKálmán FerenczfalviKálmán Ferenczfalvi was a Hungarian humanitarian, named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations after World War II.-Holocaust:...
- Béni Ferenczy and his wife
- Lajos Gidófalvy
- Béla KirályBéla KirályDr. Béla Király was a Hungarian resistance fighter during World War II, as well as a military historian, author, and politician....
- Katalin Karády (actress)
- Áron Márton (Roman Catholic bishop in Transylvania)
- Michnai László
- Maria Olt
- Géza Ottlik (novelist) and his wife
- Sister Sara Salkahazi
- Margit Slachta (the first female Member of Parliament in Hungary, the founder of The Society of the Sisters of Social Service - Societas Sororum Socialium)
- Gábor Sztehlo
- Jedespece Serespece
- Serekes
Slovakia (total: 489)
- bl. Pavol Peter GojdičPavol Peter GojdicPavol Gojdič, also known as Pavel Peter Gojdič or Peter Gojdič , was a Basilian monk and the bishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov martyred by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia....
- Dr. Michal Majercik and his wife Anna
- Marta Haasová
Italy (total: 468)
- Dr. Carlo AngelaCarlo AngelaCarlo Angela was an Italian doctor, who has been recognized as a "Righteous Gentile" for his efforts during World War II in saving Jewish lives. He is the father of TV journalist and science writer Piero Angela.-Early life:...
, M.D. - Fr. Arrigo Beccari
- Fr. Aldo Brunacci
- Sr. Ester Busnelli
- Tullio Colsalvatico
- Sr. Cornelia Cordini
- Fr. Antonio Dressino
- Fr. Leone Maria Ehrhard
- Cardinal Vincenzo FagioloVincenzo FagioloVincenzo Fagiolo S.T.D. J.C.D. was an Italian righteous among the nations, a Cardinal, and from 1990 until 1994 President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts....
- Odoardo Focherini
- Mother Elisabetta HesselbladElisabeth HesselbladBlessed Elisabeth Hesselblad, religious name Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad, was a Swedish nurse, nun, and beatified woman....
(2004) - Prof. Arturo Carlo Jemolo
- Pietro Lestini and his daughter Giuliana Lestini
- Martino Michelone, parish priest of MoransengoMoransengoMoransengo is a comune in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 25 km east of Turin and about 25 km northwest of Asti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2270, not 200 according to Lelia. and an area of 5.4 km².Moransengo borders the...
- Francesco Moraldo
- Dr. Giuseppe Moreali, M.D.
- Fr. Rufino NiccacciRufino NiccacciFather Rufino Niccacci, O.F.M. was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who shielded persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.-World War II:...
- Msgr. Giuseppe Placido Nicolini
- Dr. Giovanni PalatucciGiovanni PalatucciGiovanni Palatucci was an Italian police official who saved thousands of Jews from being deported to Nazi extermination camps....
- Cardinal Pietro PalazziniPietro PalazziniPietro Palazzini was an Italian Cardinal who helped to save Jews in World War II.Born in Piobbico, near Pesaro, he was ordained a priest on December 6, 1934 and was made a Cardinal in 1973....
- Giorgio PerlascaGiorgio PerlascaGiorgio Perlasca was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.-Early life:...
- Lorenzo PerroneLorenzo PerroneLorenzo Perrone was one of a group of skilled Italian bricklayers working under contract to the Boetti company, who were transferred to Auschwitz according to the camp expansion plan....
- Fr. Ottavio Posta
- Fr. Francesco RepettoFrancesco RepettoMonsignor Francesco Repetto was an Italian priest and librarian. He is honored by Jews as a Righteous Among the Nations for his leading role in the clandestine DELASEM organization, which contributed to the saving of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust in Italy during the German occupation.-...
- Msgr. Angelo RottaAngelo RottaAngelo Rotta , originally from Milan, Italy, was the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest at the end of World War II.During his previous diplomatic activity in Bulgaria, he already saved many Bulgarian Jews by issuing them baptismal certificates and safe conducts for the trip to Palestine.In 1944 - 1945 he...
, Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary (1997) - Fr. Emanuele Stablum
- Fr. Gaetano Tantalo
- Msgr. Gennaro Verolino
- Fr. Raimondo VialeRaimondo Viale"... resistance is a mature man's dowry, the man who rejects everything that is unjust, and rebels, rebels ... The Bible is full of resistance. Resistance is a sacred thing, is part of life that preserves life, and rejects everything that is contrary to human dignity and life itself " – The Just...
- Dr. Guelfo ZamboniGuelfo ZamboniGuelfo Zamboni was an Italian diplomat who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.-Early life:Guelfo Zamboni was born at Santa Sofia, then part of Tuscany. The last of eight sons, he belonged to a family devoted to handicrafts. His parents wanted him to become a clergyman, but they died...
Germany (total: 460)
- OskarOskar SchindlerOskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...
and Emilie SchindlerEmilie SchindlerEmilie Schindler was a humanitarian who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 to 1,700 Jews during World War II... - Anton SchmidAnton SchmidAnton Schmid was a German sergeant who, during World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania, was executed by his superiors for helping 250 Jewish men, women, and children escape from extermination by the Nazi SS during the European Jewish Holocaust...
- Karl PlaggeKarl PlaggeMajor Karl Plagge was a German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the Heer to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews — 500 men, the others women and children, in order to give them a better chance to survive the nearly total annihilation of...
- Mati Driessen
- Meta Schmidt
- Hermann Friedrich GraebeHermann Friedrich GraebeHerman Friedrich Graebe or Gräbe, was a German manager and engineer in charge of a German building firm in Ukraine, who witnessed mass executions of the Jews of Dubno on October 5, 1942 by Nazis...
- Wilm HosenfeldWilm HosenfeldWilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld , originally a teacher, was a German Army officer who rose to the rank of Hauptmann by the end of the war. He helped to hide or rescue several Poles, including Jews, in Nazi-occupied Poland, and is perhaps most remembered for helping Polish-Jewish pianist and composer...
- Bernhard LichtenbergBernhard LichtenbergBlessed Bernhard Lichtenberg was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian, awarded the title righteous among the Nations....
- Hermann MaasHermann MaasHermann Maas was a Protestant minister, a doctor of theology and named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a title given by the Israeli organization for study and remembrance of the Holocaust - Yad Vashem, for people who helped save the lives of Jews during the Holocaust without seeking to...
- Armin T. WegnerArmin T. WegnerArmin Theophil Wegner was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author and a seminal figure in German Expressionism, a human rights activist, and a victim of Nazi persecution...
- Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim
- Hans von DohnanyiHans von DohnanyiHans von Dohnanyi was a German jurist, rescuer of Jews, and German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.-Early life:...
- Karl GrögerKarl GrögerKarl Gröger was a heroic member of the Dutch resistance group executed in 1943. In 1943 the SS and police court sentenced him to death in Den Haag...
- Hugo Armann
- Wilhelm HammannWilhelm HammannWillhelm Hammann was a German educator and communist politician. A town councilor and a member of the provincial parliament of Hesse in the 1920s, he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1945...
- Eberhard Helmrich
- Joseph Höffner & sister Helena
- Elisabeth Abegg
- Adolf and Maria Althoff
- Dr. Albert Battel
- Major Max LiedtkeMax LiedtkeMax Liedtke was a German journalist and officer. He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for his resistance against the "liquidation" of the Ghetto of Przemyśl....
- Berthold Beitz
- Dr. H.G. CalmeyerHans Georg CalmeyerHans Georg Calmeyer was a German lawyer from Osnabrück who saved thousands of Jews from certain death during the German occupation of the Netherlands in from 1941 until 1945....
- Loni and Albert Harder
- Dr. Gertrud Luckner
- Dr. Otto and Gertrud Mörike
- Alfred Rossner
- Richard Ernst Moser
- Captain Gustav SchröderGustav SchröderGustav Schröder was a sea captain, who is best known for attempting to save 937 German Jews, who were passengers on his ship, the , from the Nazis in 1939.-Voyage of the Damned:The story of the 1939 sailing of the MS St...
- Dr. Helmut and Annemarie Sell
- Otto WeidtOtto WeidtOtto Weidt was the owner of a workshop in Berlin for blind and deaf. During the Holocaust, he fought to protect his Jewish workers against deportation and he has been recognised for his work as one of the Righteous Men of the World's Nations...
- Maria von MaltzanMaria von MaltzanMaria Helene Françoise Izabel Gräfin von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg und Penzlin was an aristocratic member of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler who also saved many Jews.-Biography:...
- Father Alfred DelpAlfred DelpAlfred Delp was a German Jesuit priest who was executed for his resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany.- Early life and education :...
,SJ - Heinz DrosselHeinz DrosselHeinz Drossel was a German lieutenant in World War II that refused to join the Nazi Party. After the war, he served as a judge and was named Righteous Among the Nations.-Biography:...
- Walter Krämer
Greece (total: 282)
- Princess Alice of GreecePrincess Alice of BattenbergPrincess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II....
- Bishop Chrysostomos of ZakynthosZakynthosZakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...
- Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens
- Angelos EvertAngelos EvertAngelos Evert was a Greek police officer, most notable for serving as head of the Athens branch of the Cities Police during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II....
, head of AthensAthensAthens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
police - Archbishop Ioakeim of VolosVolosVolos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
- Lukas G. Karreri, mayor of ZakynthosZakynthosZakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...
- Dr. Kostas Nikolaou
- Yerassimos Paloumbis Kephalonia
- Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark
Serbia (total: 125)
- Right Reverend Svetozar Milenkovic
- Vida Petrovic, spouse of Svetozar Milenkovic
- Aleksander Petrovic, brother of Vida Petrovic
- Dr. Dusan JovanovicDušan JovanovićDušan Jovanović is a retired footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Greece.-Playing career:Jovanović spent most of his career playing for clubs in the Greek second division, including Pontii Veria F.C., Panetolikos F.C., Panserraikos F.C. and Panachaiki F.C....
- Andrija Latal
- Petar Zankovic
- Klara Baic
- Slobodan Knezevic
- Milenija Knezevic
- Dragoljub Trajkovic
- Borivoje Bondzic
- Jelica Bondzic
- Ljubica Mandusic-Gazikalovic
- Jelica Rankovic, daughter of Ljubica Mandusic-Gazikalovic
- Srboljub Guzovic
- Guzoljub Fegic
- Ante Gamanapante
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Biljana Plavsic
- Radovan Karadzic
- Vlade Divac
- Dejan Bodiroga
- Mali Kurcic
- Mile Kitic
- Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan
- Ivo Pogorelic
Austria (total: 88)
- Oswald BoskoOswald BoskoOswald Bosko was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.The Viennese bartender was a German sergeant in the Jewish ghetto of Krakow. He supported Julius Madritsch in rescuing Jews during World War II.-Heroic deeds:...
- Wanda BottesiWanda BottesiWanda Bottesi is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.In the summer of 1944 she rescued the Jews Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs from the deportation to a concentration camp....
- Friedericke BucheggerFriedericke BucheggerFriedericke Buchegger is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.She considerably participated in the rescue of the Czech Jew Walter Posiles and his brothers Hans and Ludwig shortly before they were deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt....
- Anton DietzAnton DietzAnton Dietz – who was born in Innsbruck – is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.On January 18, 1945 there was an order to bring all inmates of the prison of Innsbruck to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Five female Jews were planning to escape the prison. The two inspectors Karl Dickbauer...
- Anna EhnAnna EhnAnna Ehn is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.One day Anna was approached by a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Illona Friedman, on her way to Mass. She instantly offered food to the hungry child, and promised to do so every day....
- Gottfried von EinemGottfried von EinemGottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.-Biography:...
- Anna FriessneggAnna FriessneggDuring the National Socialist dictatorship the Viennese Anna Friessnegg , together with her husband Ludwig interceded on behalf of the persecuted Jews. Since 1984 she is an Austrian Righteous among the Nations....
- Charlotte FritzCharlotte FritzCharlotte Fritz is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.She lived together with her sister Edeltrud Becher who was engaged to a Jew. When two executives of the Gestapo showed up and asked for Edeltrud's fiancé, Charlotte denied any presence of the man who lived with his brothers in Prague at...
- Karl GrögerKarl GrögerKarl Gröger was a heroic member of the Dutch resistance group executed in 1943. In 1943 the SS and police court sentenced him to death in Den Haag...
- Anna-Maria HaasAnna-Maria HaasAnna-Maria Haas was a Viennese woman, who on May 3, 1982, was distinguished by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the nations.Haas helped the Jewish family Josef and Sidonie Rubin-Bittman and supported them over several years during the Second World War...
- Irene HarandIrene HarandIrene Harand was an Austrian human rights activist and campaigner against antisemitism.Harand was born a Roman Catholic in Vienna and was an early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews...
- Edith HauerEdith HauerEdith Hauer-Frischmuth was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.She saved her Jewish friend, Monika Taylor, from being arrested by the Gestapo in 1942....
- Danuta KleisingerDanuta KleisingerDanuta Kleisinger is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations and an honorary Israeli citizen.In 1942 the Polish Jew Jusek Prezman was with his mother Scheine in the Warsaw Ghetto. Before the war, Danuta's mother was a friend of Scheine Prezman and Jusek was a friend of Danuta...
- Ewald KleisingerEwald KleisingerDr. Ewald Kleisinger was from 1966, an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations and the husband of Danuta Kleisinger....
- Ludwig and Maria KnappLudwig and Maria KnappLudwig Knapp and his wife Maria Knapp are both Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.In 1944 Ludwig Knapp and his wife Maria were the owner of a sawmill and an agricultural farm in Weitra in Gmünd in Lower Austria....
- Alois KreinerAlois KreinerAlois Kreiner and his wife Josephine Kreiner hid the Czech Jew Ludwig Posiles from the Nazis during World War II. The couple owned a vinery where Posiles was working during the day. At night he stayed in the attic of Alois' and Josephine's apartment.Kreiner told his customer that Posiles was a...
- Victor KuglerVictor KuglerVictor Kugler was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the name Mr...
- Otto KuttelwascherOtto KuttelwascherOtto Kuttelwascher is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.He lived in Vienna, together with his wife Hermine "Mina" Kuttelwascher and three children. A Jewish family, 2 girls and their parents, was living next to them....
- Arthur LancArthur LancArthur Lanc was medical officer in Gmünd and responsible for the medical care for all Jewish forced laborers in the area of Gmünd. It wasn't allowed to administer medicine to these people. Together with the veterinarion, a Dr. Krisch, he set aside medicine for the Jewish forced laborers and helped...
- Maria LancMaria LancMaria Lanc lived in Gmünd, Lower Austria with her husband Arthur Lanc, a medical officer, in 1944. He and his wife owned the house number 35 in Kirchengasse....
- Hermann LangbeinHermann LangbeinHermann Langbein was an Austrian who fought in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigades for the Spanish Republicans against the Nationalists under Francisco Franco...
- Erwin LutzErwin LutzErwin Lutz is an Austrian “Righteous Among the Nations”.In 1944 the police officer Erwin Lutz was working as a chef in a prison in Innsbruck. Together with police inspector Rudi Moser he decided to save five Jewish Polish girls from deportation into a concentration camp...
- Julius MadritschJulius MadritschJulius MadritschIn 1964 Julius Madritsch was honoured as a “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem.In 1940 Julius Madritsch was called up to the German Wehrmacht. Being a trained draper he was appointed trustee of two Jewish clothing manufactures in Krakow. There he saved the lives of thousands...
- Dorothea NeffDorothea NeffDorothea Neff was a Vienna stage actress during the 1930s. Neff helped hide her Jewish friend Lilli Schiff, after she received resettlement orders from the Nazis to leave Vienna. To throw the Gestapo, Neff wrote a suicide note and signed it 'Lilli' and left it in her apartment...
- Anton SchmidAnton SchmidAnton Schmid was a German sergeant who, during World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania, was executed by his superiors for helping 250 Jewish men, women, and children escape from extermination by the Nazi SS during the European Jewish Holocaust...
- Edi StecherEdi StecherEdi Stecher is a Viennese Righteous among the Nations. He received this honorary title in 1984 for harbouring the Jewish woman Melvine Deutsch.Deutsch was in a camp of forced labors of the Siemens company in Vienna...
- Maria SteinerMaria SteinerMaria Steiner is an Austrian honored as one of the Righteous among the nations.Maria Steiner lived in Vienna and in 1942 she housed the Jewess Hedwig Mendelsohn within her house....
- Maria StockerMaria StockerMaria Stockerwas born in Innsbruck.In 1945, during World War II she saved the life of two Jewish girls, from Poland – Lorraine Jusman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs...
- Leo TschoellLeo TschoellDr. Leo Tschoell has been awarded the title “righteous among the nations.”After the annexation of Austria to Germany in 1938 he immigrated to Yugoslavia and established his own business in Belgrade. After the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 he fled to Hungary and founded a new firm in Budapest.In...
- Rudolf WertzRudolf WertzRudolf Wertz was a physician from Vienna, who received the honorary title „Righteous among the Nations“ as Austrian.In 1941 Werzt rescued Jews from deportation to Poland by issuing confirmations of serious diseases for them...
Romania (total: 60)
- Viorica AgariciViorica AgariciViorica Agarici was a Romanian nurse, the chairwoman of the local Red Cross in the city of Roman during World War II and the Ion Antonescu regime...
- Theodor Criveanu
- Traian PopoviciTraian PopoviciTraian Popovici was a Romanian lawyer and mayor of Cernăuţi during World War II, known for saving 20,000 Jews of Bukovina from deportation.Popovici was born in Ruşii Mănăstioarei village of Suceava county...
- Cojoc Gheorghe
- Elena Queen Mother of Romania
- Cuciuba Traian and his son Traian jr
- Raoul ŞorbanRaoul SorbanRaoul Şorban was a Romanian painter, journalist, writer, essayist, art historian, academic, and memoirist.-Biography:...
- Anutoiu T. Anghel
- Constantin Simionescu
- Beceanu Dumitru
- Ioan D. Popescu
- Moldovan Valeriu
- Sion Mircea Petru G.
- Prince Constantin KaradjaConstantin KaradjaPrince Constantin Jean Lars Anthony Démétrius Karadja was a Romanian diplomat, jurist, bibliographer, bibliophile and honorific member of the Romanian Academy...
http://www.oldframlinghamian.com/images/articles/PRINCECONSTANTINKARADJA1906-08.pdf , Romanian diplomat - Gheorghe Petre I
- Manoliu Florian
- Suta Ioan
Norway (total: 42)
For a complete list, see Norwegian Righteous Among the NationsNorwegian Righteous among the Nations
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, its Jewish community was subject to persecution and deported to extermination camps. Although at least 764 Jews in Norway were killed, over 1,000 were rescued with the help of non-Jewish Norwegians who risked their lives to smuggle the refugees out...
- Ingebjorg Sletten
- Nic Waal
- Nina Hasvold
- Gerda Tanberg
- Martin Solvang
- Ola Rauken
- Ola Breisjøberget
- Sigrid Helliesen LundSigrid Helliesen LundSigrid Helliesen Lund was a Norwegian peace activist, noted for her humanitarian efforts throughout most of the 20th century, and in particular her resistance to the occupation of Norway during World War II.-Biography:...
- Per Faye-HansenPer Faye-HansenPer Faye-Hansen was a Norwegian pastor who saved Jews, risking his life, during World War II.- World War II :In October 1942, Faye-Hansen organized a temporary hiding place in a flower shop in Majorstuen for Jewish refugees. He meticulously arranged the escape of this group of Jews to Sweden with...
Switzerland (total: 45)
- Paul Grueninger
- Carl LutzCarl LutzCarl Lutz was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped save tens of thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi Extermination camps during the Holocaust. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews...
- Friedrich BornFriedrich BornFriedrich Born was a Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Budapest between May 1944 and January 1945, when he had to leave Hungary following orders of the occupying Red Army.He already lived in the Hungarian Capital city before his appointment by the ICRC, working as...
- Ernst Prodolliet
- Elizabeth Eidenbenz
Denmark (total: 22)
The Danish UndergroundDanish resistance movement
The Danish resistance movement was an underground insurgency movement to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the unusually lenient terms given to Danish people by the Nazi occupation authority, the movement was slower to develop effective tactics on a wide scale...
requested that all its members who participated in the rescue of the Danish Jews
Rescue of the Danish Jews
The rescue of the Danish Jews occurred during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark during World War II. On October 1st 1943 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered Danish Jews to be arrested and deported...
should not be listed individually, but commemorated as one group, according to the Righteous among the Nations website.
Bulgaria (total: 19)
- Dimitar PeshevDimitar PeshevDimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II...
- Dimo Kazasov
- Metropolitan Stefan
- Metropolitan Cyril
United Kingdom (total: 14)
- Charles CowardCharles CowardCharles Joseph Coward , known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz and smuggled himself into Auschwitz for one night, subsequently testifying about his experience at the Nuremberg Trials and the IG Farben...
- Frank FoleyFrank FoleyMajor Francis Edward Foley CMG was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer...
- Jane HainingJane HainingJane Haining was a Church of Scotland missionary. She worked in Budapest, where she was arrested by the Nazis in 1944. She died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz later that year.-Early life:...
(the only ScotScottish peopleThe Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
on the list) - Albert BedaneAlbert BedaneAlbert Bedane lived in Jersey during the German occupation during World War II, and provided shelter to a Jewish woman and others, preventing their capture by the Nazis....
- June Ravenhall
- Gregor Nickor
Armenia (total: 13)
- Jeretzian, Ara (1981)
- Kisheshyan, Arut & Zagoruiko Natalia; daughter Almaza (2003)
- Mkrtchyan, Vartan; mother Arakel (1999)
- Shakhbazyan, Knarik (1999)
- Tadschjian, Aram & Felicia (1992)
- Tashchyan, Grigori and Pran; children: Asmik and Tigran (2002)
Sweden (total: 10)
- Raoul WallenbergRaoul WallenbergRaoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for his successful efforts to rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust, during the later stages of World War II...
- Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest 1944-45 (Recognised in 1963) - Valdemar & Nina LangletValdemar LangletValdemar Langlet [lan’lé] was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist. With his wife Nina Borovko-Langlet in Budapest, he is credited with saving many Jews from the Holocaust, by providing Swedish documents saying that people were waiting for Swedish nationality...
- Swedish Red Cross delegates in Budapest, 1944-45 (Recognised in 1965) - Per AngerPer AngerPer Johan Valentin Anger was a Swedish diplomat who participated in numerous efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews from arrest and deportation by the Nazis during World War II.-Early career:...
- Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest 1944-45 (Recognised in 1980) - Lars Berg - Swedish Consul in Budapest 1944-45 (Recognised in 1982)
- Carl Ivan Danielsson - Swedish Ambassador in Budapest 1944-45 (Recognised in 1982)
- Erik Myrgren - Priest at the Swedish Church in Berlin in 1944-45 (Recognised in 1986)
- Elow Kihlgren - Swedish Honorary Consul in Genoa in 1944 (Recognised in 2001)
- Erik Perwe - Vicar of the Swedish Church in Berlin 1942-44 (Recognised in 2006)
Slovenia (total: 20)
- Ivan Breskvar
- Zora Piculin
- Andrej Tumpelj
- Uroš Žun
- Ivan and Ljubica Župančič
- Slavko Kanalec
- Ljubo Grmec
- Adolf Hetler
- Herman Gornik
- Adolf Ajhman
- Odilo Globocnik
- Damjan Murko
- Helena Blagne
- Sebastijan Cimerotic
- Josip Broz Tito
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Pobijalec Judov
- Sergej Fikfak
- Izidor Kurbez
- Ivo Pofukelj
Turkey (total: 4)
- Selahattin ÜlkümenSelahattin ÜlkümenSelahattin Ülkümen was a Turkish diplomat and consul in Rhodes during the Second World War, who assisted many local Jews to escape the Holocaust...
- Necdet KentNecdet Kentİsmail Necdet Kent was a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While vice consul-general in Marseilles, France between 1941 and 1944, he gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers, to save them from...
- Namık Kemal YolgaNamik Kemal YolgaNamık Kemal Yolga was a Turkish diplomat and statesman, known as the Turkish Schindler. During World War II, Yolga was the Vice-Consul at the Turkish Embassy in Paris, France...
- Behiç ErkinBehiç ErkinBehiç Erkin was a career Army officer; first director of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices; and statesman with the Turkish government who helped save almost 20,000 of ethnic Turkish Jews in France during World War II...
USA (total: 3)
- Varian FryVarian FryVarian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.-Early life:...
, Emergency Rescue Committee representative in France - Martha SharpMartha SharpMartha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan was an American philanthropist who, along with her husband Waitstill Sharp, helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution by sending them off through Czechoslovakia-Social Work:...
- Waitstill SharpWaitstill SharpWaitstill Hastings Sharp was a Harvard College graduate and Unitarian minister. He was the son of naturalist author and professor Dallas Lore Sharp and Grace Hastings and a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...
Portugal (total: 2)
- Aristides Sousa Mendes Portuguese consul-general (Bordeaux, France), issued 30,000 visas, including 12,000 to Jews, in order to allow countless people, to escape the Nazis. Sousa Mendes was admitted to Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations list in 1966.
- Carlos de Sampayo Garrido Portuguese ambassador (BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
), sheltered about 1,000 Jews in safe-houses established by the Portuguese embassy and provided them with Portuguese documents that allowed them to safely leave the country. Sampayo Garrido was admitted to Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations list in 1966; his chargé d'affaires, Teixeira Branquinho, is also celebrated in Budapest's synagogue, but he hasn't been included in Yad Vashem's list.
Japan (total: 1)
- Chiune SugiharaChiune Sugiharawas a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from...
, Japanese Consul (Kovno, LithuaniaKaunasKaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...
), saved at least 10 000.
(Dominican Republic (total:1)
The late dictator Rafael Trujillo and the Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
are not on the List of the Righteous among the Nations though Trujillo’s Dominican Republic at the Evian Conference in 1938 was the only country to offer to take in Jewish refugees (100,000). The Dominican Republic admitted over eight-hundred Jewish refugees before Germany curbed the exodus. Two years prior to the Evian Conference Trujillo ordered the killing of over 30,000 Dominicans, most of Haitian descent. )
Total
- The total of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, as of January 1, 2009 is 22,765.
External links
- Yad Vashem > The Righteous Among The Nations > Virtual Wall of Honor List of all Righteous sorted by Countries. Accessed 20 September 2011.