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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.[1] By 1 January 2009 Yad Vashem recognized 22,765 Righteous Among the Nations from 44 countries. [2]

Contents

Country of origin

Poland (Total: 6,135)

Main article: Polish Righteous among the Nations

Netherlands (Total: 4,947)

France (Total: 2,991)

Righteous
among the Nations
Main article
The Holocaust
Rescuers assisting Jews
Righteousness
Seven Laws of Noah
Yad Vashem
Famous individuals
Damaskinos · Ho
Lutz · Schindler
Sendler · Wallenberg
Nations and groups
Croatian Righteous
Danish Underground
Norwegian Righteous
Polish Righteous
Righteous by country
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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)

Lithuania (Total: 761)

Hungary (Total: 725)

  • József Antall (the father of the prime minister of 1990)
  • Vilmos Apor
  • Zoltan Bay
  • Kálmán Ferenczfalvi
  • Béni Ferenczy and his wife
  • Lajos Gidófalvy
  • Béla Király
  • Katalin Karády (actress)
  • Áron Márton (Roman Catholic bishop in Transylvania)
  • Michnai László
  • Maria Olt
  • Géza Ottlik (novellist) 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

Belarus (Total: 602)

Slovakia (Total: 489)

Germany (Total: 460)

Italy (Total: 468)[4]

Greece (Total: 282)

Serbia (Total: 125)

Russia (Total: 163)

  • Tatiana Zelenskaya
  • Nikolay Kiselev

Croatia (Total: 102)

Latvia (Total: 120)

Austria (Total: 85)

Romania (Total: 56)

Norway (Total: 42)

For a complete list, see Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations

Switzerland (Total: 45)

Denmark (Total: 22)

The Danish Underground 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.

Bulgaria (Total: 19)

United Kingdom (Total: 14)

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 Wallenberg - Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest 1944-45 (Recognised in 1963)
  • Valdemar & Nina Langlet - Swedish Red Cross delegates in Budapest, 1944-45 (Recognised in 1965)
  • Per Anger - 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: 6)

  • Ivan Breskar
  • Zora Piculin
  • Andrej Tumpelj
  • Uroš Žun
  • Ivan and Ljubica Župančič

Spain (Total: 4)

Turkey (Total: 1)

Estonia (Total: 3)

USA (Total: 3)

China (Total: 2)

Brazil (Total: 2)

Chile (Total: 1)

Japan (Total: 1)

Luxembourg (Total: 1)

Portugal (Total: 1)

Total

  • The total of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, as of January 1, 2009 is 22,765.

See also

References

  1. ^ Polish Righteous Among the Nations of the World.
  2. ^ Yad Vashem, The Righteous Among the Nations.
  3. ^ Insert footnote text here
  4. ^ "Righteous Among the Nations Recognized by Yad Vashem as of 1 January 2009 - Italy" (PDF). Yad Vashem. 2009-01-01. http://www1.yadvashem.org/heb_site/righteous/pdf/virtual_wall_of_honor/ITALY.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 

Bibliography

  • Those who Helped: Polish Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust - Publisher: Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation--The Institute of National Memory (1993) ISBN 8390335646
  • Fogelman, Eva. Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
  • Bercher, Elinor J. Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors. New York: Penguin, 1994.
  • Michał Grynberg, Księga Sprawiedliwych (Book of the Righteous), Warsaw, PWN, 1993.

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