Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler

male, deceased (1974)
Schindler's List, Civilcourage, Industrialist, Schindler's Ark, humanitarian, German…the holocaust, RighteousAmongtheNations
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 - 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust, by...
Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

male, 97 years old
yad vashem, diplomatic cover, Lubyanka, University of Michigan alumni, Jewish Hungarian history, Honorary citizen of Canada…RighteousAmongtheNations, Honorary Citizen of the United States, often sent back to the Lyublyanka, United Nations
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to...
Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

female, 99 years old
polish language, Catholic, Żegota, Polish Underground, RighteousAmongtheNations, helped Jews during the Holocaust
Irena Sendler (also called "Irena Sendlerowa" in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw). Polish social worker. During World War II she...
Chiune Sugihara

Chiune Sugihara

male, deceased (1986)
World War II, humanitarian, schindler, Jewish person, Japanese, politician…helped Jews during the Holocaust, RighteousAmongtheNations
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews leave the Soviet Union while serving as the consul of the Empire of Japan to...
Jan Karski

Jan Karski

male, deceased (2000)
resistance, extermination camps, Polish resistance, Warsaw University alumni, Jewish person, Educator…naturalized citizen of the United States, RighteousAmongtheNations
Jan Karski, was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto after the summer 1942 deportations. Disguised as...
Martha Sharp

Martha Sharp

female, deceased (1999)
American social worker, philanthropist, Jewish person, American, first baptist church, RighteousAmongtheNations
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan (1905 - 1999) was an American philanthropist who, along with her husband Waitstill Sharp, helped hundreds of Jews...
Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

male, deceased (1954)
Nazi, Jewish person, Catholic, humanitarian, roman, diplomat…Order of the Freedom, RighteousAmongtheNations
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, <small>GCC, OL</small>; (July 19, 1885-April 3, 1954), pron. (full name: Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches)...
Khaled Abdelwahhab

Khaled Abdelwahhab

male
anti-Semitic, Odette Boukris, death camps, interlocutor, labor camps, RighteousAmongtheNations…helped Jews during the Holocaust
Khaled Abdelwahhab (died 1997) became the first Arab nominated for the Israeli Righteous Among the Nations, when he was nominated in January, 2007,...
Corrie ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom

female, deceased (1983)
Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, movie of the same name, State of Israel, From Haarlem, the hiding place, holocaust survivor…RighteousAmongtheNations, helped Jews during the Holocaust
Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, generally known as Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the...
Miep Gies

Miep Gies

female, 100 years old
dutch, Dutch language, Prinsengracht, Vienna, Austria, RighteousAmongtheNations, Raoul Wallenberg Award recipient…the diary of anne frank, The Attic The Hiding of Anne Frank
Unfortunately, one day Miep received a letter from the Nazis asking her to report to the German Consulate. Word had traveled to the Nazis that she...