Righteous Among the Nations

'Escalate for Palestine:' Belgian Holocaust memorial defaced

"Escalate for Palestine, everyone," the graffiti on the Monument to the Righteous of Belgium read.

 A Brussels memorial to non-Jews who worked to rescue Jews from the Nazi genocide campaign was defaced with anti-Israel messages on Tuesday, Jewish organizations said. 
People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, 2024

Searching for beacons of altruism amid the darkness of the Holocaust - opinion

 RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

 A screenshot of the Google Doodle for July 25, 2023, honoring the 122nd birthday of Dr. Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Art drawn by Noa Snir.

Google Doodle honors Egyptian doctor who saved Jews in the Holocaust


'Overture of Hope': The heroes who saved Jewish performers from Nazis - review

Non-Jewish British siblings Ida and Louise Cook make the unlikeliest of heroines and you could not make up their story.

 OPENING CEREMONY of the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna last month. The book discusses the Cooks’ connections to Austrian opera stars during the Nazi era.

Grapevine January 25, 2023: Pause to remember

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 A VETERAN’S parade of Jewish soldiers who fought for the Red Army in the Second World War, held in Jerusalem to mark the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.

Yad Vashem commissions musical tribute to Chiune Sugihara

Symphony No. 6, “Vessels of Light,” as the performance is called, is dedicated to the heroic deeds of Chiune Sugihara.

 THE WORLD premiere of ‘Symphony No. 6, Vessels of Light’ in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Murals of Righteous Among the Nations created across New York

Tibor Baranski set up safe houses and printed official looking but fraudulent passes to get Jews out of the country, saving more than 3,000 lives.

 Carol Romeo touching a mural of Righteous Among the Nations Tibor Baranski.

Jerusalem names plaza after Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands during Holocaust

“This small corner of Jerusalem, the eternal city, now carries the name of a hero,” says Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion.

Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion inaugurates Aristides de Souza Mendes square

Mendes issued roughly 30,000 visas and passports to refugees who fled Nazi Germany – including 10,000 visas to Jews fleeing their certain death in Europe.

   Jerusalem: Mayor Moshe Leon inaugurates a square named after the Righteous Among the Nations Aristides de Souza Mendes

German supermarket chain promotes Holocaust memoir as 'relaxing holiday read'

The UK website for German supermarket chain Aldi called Holocaust book 'Schindler's Ark' "a gripping story that will have you hooked as your body soaks in those sun rays."

 Supermarket chain Aldi faced backlash after their website posted a listing for Holocaust book 'Schindler's Ark,' describing it as a "relaxing holiday read."

How my family found refuge in 2 villages in the Holocaust

After the fall of France, the family kept on its Jewish children, taking in desperate newcomers after September 1943, when the Germans occupied the Grenoble area.

 An archival photograph of the Preventorium in Prélenfrey in southern France, where Jewish children were hidden during the Holocaust.

These doctors invented a fake disease to save Jews and keep Nazis away

The film “Syndrome K” tells how three doctors in Rome saved a group of Jews from the Nazis in 1943 and 1944 by inventing a fake infectious disease called Syndrome K.

The outside of Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome, where doctors shielded Jews by making up a fake disease during World War II.

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust and the Righteous Gentile

These three people are only a few drops in the ocean, but their humanitarian action served to help purify the poison in the Nazi sea.

 An aerial view of Yad Vashem

Jozef Walaszczyk, rescuer of Jews in Holocaust, dies at 102

Jozef Walaszczyk fell in love with a Jewish woman and became compelled to rescue her and dozens of other Jews from the Holocaust.

 Jozef Walaszczyk, a 100-year-old who saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, Jan. 28, 2020.