List of Righteous among the Nations by country
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 the end of 2010 Yad Vashem recognized 23,788 Righteous Among the Nations from 45 countries. [2]
Country of origin
Poland (total: 6,195[3])
Netherlands (total: 5,009)
- Miep Gies and her husband Jan Gies, helpers of Anne Frank
- Corrie ten Boom
- Frits Philips of Philips Electronics
- Johan Benders & his wife, Gerritdina Benders-Letterboer
- Johan Hendrik Weidner
- Victor Kugler
- Jaap Penraat
- Walter Susskind
- Johan van Hulst
- Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer saved some 10.000 Jewish children, a.o. directly from Adolf Eichmann
- Jan Zwartendijk Saved 3 000
- Alida Bosshardt, also known as Majoor Bosshardt (Salvation Army)
- Le Grand-Franken, Joop (nickname). Official name Johanna Le Grand and her two brave brothers (the FRANKEN family): Wim Franken & Sim Franken [4]
- Liesbeth en Ariën Visscher-Valckenier Suringar
- Marion Pritchard
- Tine zur Kleinsmiede
- Jacobus Rijnbout & his wife Eelkje Hattuma, honored posthumously on April 20, 2004
- Jan Roorda and his wife Rien Roorda
- Dirk van Schaik
- The Sietsma brothers, Hein & Henk
- Joop Westerweel and his wife Wilhelmina
- Joop Woortman & Jaap Musch, from the N.V. Group
- Jan Giliam
- Clara Dijkstra
- Petrus & Afra Dubelaar, Amsterdam North, and Hendrikus & Alida Dubelaar, Santport; from the Westerweel Group. [Hidden: Sam Goldberg, mother, grandmother]
- Barent Binnenkant
- Dr. Gerrit J. ten Zythoff
- Sipke and Femmigje Woudstra
- Dirk Boonstra
- Johannes and Janke de Vries
- Johtje Vos and her husband Aart Vos
- Jan Van Hulst
- Binne Roorda
France (total: 2,991)
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)
Belarus (total: 602)
Slovakia (total: 489)
Italy (total: 468)[5]
Germany (total: 460)
Greece (total: 307)
Russia (total: 163)
Serbia (total: 125)
- Right Reverend Svetozar Milenkovic
- Vida Petrovic, spouse of Svetozar Milenkovic
- Aleksander Petrovic, brother of Vida Petrovic
- Dr. Dusan Jovanovic
- Andrija Latal
- Petar Zankovic
- Klara Baic
- Slobodan Knezevic
- Milenija Knezevic
- Dragoljub Trajkovic
- Borivoje Bondzic
- Jelica Bondzic
- Ljubica Mandusic-Gazikalovic
- Jelica Rankovic, daughter of Ljubica Mandusic-Gazikalovic
Latvia (total: 120)
Czech Republic (total: 118)
Croatia (total: 102)
Austria (total: 88)[9]
Albania (total: 69)[10]
Romania (total: 60)
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: 5)
- Ivan Breskvar
- Zora Piculin
- Andrej Tumpelj
- Uroš Žun
- Ivan and Ljubica Župančič
Spain (total: 4)
Turkey (total: 4)
Estonia (total: 3)
USA (total: 3)
Brazil (total: 2)
China (total: 2)
Portugal (total: 2)
- Aristides Sousa Mendes Portuguese consul-general (Bordeaux, France), issued 30,000 visas, including 12,000 to Jews, in order to allow countless people, to escape the Nazis. Sousa Mendes was admitted to Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations list in 1966.
- Carlos de Sampayo Garrido Portuguese ambassador (Budapest, Hungary), sheltered about 1,000 Jews in safe-houses established by the Portuguese embassy and provided them with Portuguese documents that allowed them to safely leave the country. Sampayo Garrido was admitted to Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations list in 1966; his chargé d'affaires, Teixeira Branquinho, is also celebrated in Budapest's synagogue, but he hasn't been included in Yad Vashem's list.
Chile (total: 1)
Japan (total: 1)
Luxembourg (total: 1)
(Dominican Republic (total:1)
The late dictator Rafael Trujillo and the Dominican Republic are not on the List of the Righteous among the Nations though Trujillo’s Dominican Republic at the Evian Conference in 1938 was the only country to offer to take in Jewish refugees (100,000). The Dominican Republic admitted over eight-hundred Jewish refugees before Germany curbed the exodus. Two years prior to the Evian Conference Trujillo ordered the killing of over 30,000 Dominicans, most of Haitian descent. [12])
Total
- The total of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, as of January 1, 2009 is 22,765.
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 83-903356-4-6
- 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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