Righteous gentiles

Schindler in Persian: Iranian heroes who painted the Holocaust with light - opinion

Abdol Hossein Sardari and Hajji Yaakov Hay remind us of the immense power of the individual in the face of darkness.

ABDOL HOSSEIN SARDARI
 ERIN MOLAN, Australian broadcaster and ally of Israel.

Erin Molan: A role model and modern Righteous Gentile

THE WRITER’S family in Brussels prior to the Holocaust: Her mother Sonia (L) and aunt Hannie were Hidden Children saved by Madame Anciaux, a Righteous Among the Nations. Their father Saul Birnberg was murdered in Auschwitz; their mother Dora hid under an assumed identity.

Remembering the Holocaust also means standing up to hate - opinion

 Footage from the The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous event in Warsaw, Poland. January 28, 2025.

'Heroic people': JFR honors Righteous Gentiles at Warsaw event


Chilean diplomat who saved over 1,200 during the Holocaust honored

Chilean diplomat Samuel del Campo issued Polish and Chilean passports to over 1,200 Polish and Romanian Jews who were confined by Romanian authorities in the Chernivtsi ghetto.

 Samuel del Campo was stationed in Romania during World War II and issued passports to Jews before they were deported to Nazi camps.

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous gives $515,000 to righteous gentiles for Christmas

Righteous gentiles are non-Jews recognized for their efforts to protect Jews from Nazis and Nazi sympathizers during the Holocaust.

 A WOMAN from Poland places her hand near the names of family members honored at Yad Vashem in 2018 as Righteous Among the Nations.

Jewish group launches virtual tribute to heroic Righteous Gentiles

The virtual series by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous aims to educate the public on the hazards of spreading hate speech toward any racial or religious group.

Wall of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.

Milestone reached in establishment of home for Righteous Among the Nations

Within five weeks, the organization raised $17,000 online from over 250 donors and over $13,000 in other grants.

Righteous Among the Nations, Lyubov Volchek, in Belarus

Olivér Rácz, Righteous Among the Nations

A translated article about his grandfather, a Hungarian-Slovak storyteller, who wrote 25 years ago under the original title “The Death Camps Were Liberated Fifty Years Ago.”

OLIVÉR RÁCZ, the writer’s grandfather, as a young man in the late 1930s: a student and already an accomplished poet.

Daughter of Holocaust hero visits Israel

He rescued thousands of Jews in Hungary.

Larry Pfeffer, Agnes Hirschi and Les Glassman

Christian peasants credited for saving Jews during the Holocaust

Jerusalemite Betty Eppel recalled how she and her younger brother were hidden during the Holocaust by a Christian couple on a French farm.

Left: BETTY EPPEL (standing, left) visits Josephine and Victor Guicherd in France in 1986. Right: VICTOR GUICHERD’S clock hangs in Betty Eppel’s house

London Jewish taxi drivers give Holocaust rescuers free rides

In Warsaw alone, dozens recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel live in the sprawling metropolis, where taxis can be unaffordable to elderly people with monthly state-issued pensions.

A London black cab taxi drives past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in late afternoon sunlight in London, Britain, November 10, 2016.

Polish President to commemorate diplomat who helped save Jews from Nazis

It is not known exactly how many people were saved, but it is thought to be around 800.

PRESIDENT REUVEN Rivlin and Polish President Andrzej Duda take part in the annual ‘March of the Living’ at Auschwitz in April.

Prince William unveils statue of man who saved Jews

MI6 spy Frank Foley is often referred to as the ‘British Oskar Schindler'.

Britain's Prince William lays a wreath during a ceremony commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem