Righteous Among the Nations

Foreign Ministry holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony for Righteous Among the Nations

The ceremony took place by a wall of the Foreign Affairs Ministry on which are the names of foreign diplomats who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.

ISRAEL'S FOREIGN Ministry hosts a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony for foreign diplomats, April 13, 2026.
THE WALL of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.

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Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is being awarded a Medal of Honor in 2026 for his bravery in protecting Jewish troops in World War II.

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Ahmed al-Ahmad.

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Russian Jewish Congress honors 250 Righteous Among the Nations

The exhibit's interactive display is a a multi-media installation that allows visitors to witness a a virtual conversation between the rescuer and those in need of rescue.

Wall of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.

Warsaw Jewish community sending care packages for righteous among nations

Volunteers from the community as well as staff from the American Jewish Committee helped distribute the packages.

Warsaw Jewish community sending care packages for righteous among nations

Did Hans Calmeyer send a Jewish woman to Auschwitz?

In 1992, Yad Vashem posthumously recognized Calmeyer, who died in 1972, as a Righteous Among the Nations, Israel’s title for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

New info revealed on Ukrainian priest who saved Jews in Holocaust

Andrey Sheptytsky, led Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church at the time. The new information about Sheptytsky offers his supporters a new chance to have his historical record honored.

Ukrainian priest Andrey Sheptytsky who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Last German recognized as righteous gentile for Holocaust heroism dies

Gertrud Steinl, who was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1979 as a Righteous Among the Nations, died a day before her 98th birthday.

A RELATIVE of a Holocaust survivor places a flower next to the name of a former concentration camp during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

Belgian leader celebrates Holocaust rescuer’s 100th birthday

Jambon visited the home of Maria Nowak, a Polish woman who risked her life to save Jews during the Holocaust, to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

Holocaust survivors reunite with rescuer at Yad Vashem

The heroic actions of the Gianopoulou and Axiopoulos families saved most of the immediate Mordechai family members during the war

Descendants of the Mordechai family and Righteous Among the Nations rescuer Melpomeni Dina on the balcony exiting from Yad Vashem

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President welcomes a delegation of Polish Righteous Among the Nations.

President Rivlin embraces Janina Rosciszewska  whose family saved seven Jews during the Holocaust

Polish Righteous Among the Nations honored in Warsaw

Some 30 rescuers attended a special event organized by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

An illustrative photo of Righteous Among the Nations medal belonging to Marta Bocheńska who helped save Halina Buchwald in Warsaw during the Holocaust.

Dutch heroine who saved dozens of Jews in World War II dies at 99

Diet Eman buried weapons in her parents’ garden, translated BBC reports and provided money, ration cards and false documents to Jews on the run.

A monument at former Nazi transition-camp Westerbork in the Netherlands .