Righteous gentiles

Erin Molan: A role model and modern Righteous Gentile

Throughout all her media presence, speaking, and platforms, Erin Molan continues to challenge narratives, inspire action, and amplify a message of moral courage. 

 ERIN MOLAN, Australian broadcaster and ally of Israel.
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

 PALESTINIANS FLEE the eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by the IDF to evacuate, earlier this week. The writer asks: ‘What if I had been born in Gaza? What if I had been raised to hate Jews and the Jewish state? Would I want to kill innocent people?’

In their shoes: If I was born in Gaza, would I have joined Hamas? - opinion


Relative of first Arab Righteous Gentile to receive honor in Berlin

Dr. Mohamad Helmy was recognized in 2013, but Yad Vashem was only able to track down his relatives this year.

Anna Boros Gutman and daughter Carla visiting Dr. Mohamad Helmy and wife Emmi in Berlin, 1961

Yad Vashem honors Chilean righteous among the nations

Chilean diplomat honored for issuing passports which prevented the deportation of over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.

From left to right: Dr. Christian Beals Campos, Relative of Samuel del Campo; Sergio Della Pergola, Member of the Committee for the Designation of Righteous Among the Nations; and Irena Steinfeldt, Director of the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem.

Polish president seeks to dedicate day to righteous gentiles

Duda honors former members of Zegota, founded to save Jews in Holocaust.

POLAND’S PRESIDENT Andrzej Duda speaks at an event at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem

Yad Vashem marks 75 years since murders of Polish Jewish educators

Educators Janusz Korczak and Stefania Wilczyńska sacrificed their lives to care for the Warsaw ghetto orphans.

Members of the Nadel family lay a wreath next to the monument commemorating Janusz Korczak

Jewish World: Saviors of Italy’s Jewish past

More than 300 Houses of Life have been discovered in Italy and another 200 in France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece.

PROF. ALESSANDRA STADERINI (right), daughter of Fausto and Bice who sheltered their Jewish friends’ children Bianca Campagnano (left) and her brother in their home in Rome during the Nazi occupation of Italy. The two women look through family photos at LUMSA University in Rome on June 27

Wallenberg – an open letter to President Donald Trump

Raoul Wallenberg not only deserves the many honors he has received, but also something more: he deserves justice.

Raoul Wallenberg

Poland’s complex battle for its image decades after the Holocaust

Poland is promoting the stories of the righteous who saved Jews in the Shoah, but critics of the ruling Law and Justice Party charge that it is politicizing memory and stifling a debate.

Jozef Jarosz inside the dugout where his family sheltered 14 Jews for almost two years during WWII

Prince Charles recalls grandmother’s rescue of Jews from Holocaust

Princess Alice was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations for hiding a Jewish family during WWII and is buried in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.

PRINCE CHARLES and a Holocaust survivor light a candle at Central Hall Westminster, as his wife, Camilla, looks on.

Risking everything to defy the Nazis

The tale of Rev. Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who lied and deceived their way to saving more than 100 Czech Jews during the Holocaust.

Rev. Waitstill and Martha Sharp and their family

Raoul Wallenberg: Getting to the core of the mystery

The fate of Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews in the Holocaust and was acknowledged as a Righteous Among the Nations, remains unknown to this day.

Raoul Wallenberg