Series: Righteous Among the Nations

Explore a series of articles about some of the Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jewish individuals who have been honored by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, for risking their lives to aid Jews during the Holocaust.

Righteous Among the Nations

Varian Fry

Gino Bartali

Martha and Waitstill Sharp

Jan Zwartendijk

Jan Karski

Father Jacques

Oskar Schindler

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

Corrie ten Boom

Chiune Sugihara

Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest

Mohamed Helmy

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