We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...

Eimericus and Anna Maria Tijssen took in a young Jewish girl, while Hendrik and Frederika Veldboom hid a Jewish couple on ...

More than 28,000 people have been named Righteous Among the Nations. The Yad Vashem Law allows recipients to receive honorary Israeli citizenship in recognition of their actions.

That led to her being recognized by the state’s Holocaust authority as Righteous Among the Nations in 1965, although her amazing accomplishments were hardly known at all in her Polish homeland.

Chris Edmonds tells the story of his dad, the only U.S. soldier in Israel's ranks of Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews at their own peril.

‘Righteous Among the Nations’ is a special title granted to certain gentiles who had risked their lives to save Jews from Nazi persecution. One of their number is German countess Maria von ...

The mural honors Tibor Baranski, Clara Ambrus, and Sister Magit Slatcha who are three Hungarian-born people recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" and called Western New York home.

These rescuers were awarded by Yad Vashem the title “righteous among the nations,” a term borrowed from rabbinic literature. Since 1963, nearly 28,000 non-Jews have been recognized by Yad ...

The Righteous Among the Nations Avenue in Yad Vashem ד”ר אבישי טייכר under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license. On August 15, 1942, a 12-year-old boy named Shmulik ...

Friendship like none other tied families or rescuers and rescuees in times of war. Pavel Petroch, Jozef Fekiač, Ján Bukov and his wife Mária Bukovová were awarded the Righteous Among the Nations award ...

Living in a tiny room, Klein family sticking together survived the hardest time. Mária Speváková and her husband Ján Spevák received the Righteous Among the Nations award for providing shelter and ...