Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

male, 97 years old
yadvashem, diplomatic cover, Lubyanka, University of Michigan alumni, Jewish Hungarian history, Honorary citizen of Canada
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to...
Yitzhak Arad

Yitzhak Arad

male, 83 years old
Jewish, Israel Defense Forces, British Mandate of Palestine, Fascist/Nazi era scholar, Antisemitism, Soviet partisans…yadvashem
Yitzhak Arad is a Lithuanian-born Israeli historian and retired IDF brigadier general. A veteran of the Nazi-era Jewish resistance movement in...
Yaacov Lozowick

Yaacov Lozowick

male
Bad Kreuznach, Israeli, writer, yadvashem, the holocaust
Yaacov Lozowick (born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach) is an Israeli historian and writer. He is the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.
Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz

male, deceased (1975)
Angel Sanz Briz, International Committee of The Red Cross, the holocaust, yadvashem, extermination camp, Jewish Hungarian history
Carl Lutz (30 March, 1895 - 12 February, 1975) was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped...
Hermann Langbein

Hermann Langbein

male, deceased (1995)
yadvashem, Nazi concentration camp survivor, Righteous Among the Nations
Hermann Langbein was among those awarded the Righteous Among the Nations status by Yad Vashem. He wrote several books about his experiences in the...
Khaled Abdelwahhab

Khaled Abdelwahhab

male
anti-Semitic, Odette Boukris, death camps, interlocutor, labor camps, Righteous Among the Nations…yadvashem
Khaled Abdelwahhab (died 1997) became the first Arab nominated for the Israeli Righteous Among the Nations, when he was nominated in January, 2007,...
Gideon Hausner

Gideon Hausner

male, deceased (1990)
Nuremberg Defense, Former Member of the Knesset, Independent Liberal, crime against humanity, Galician, Jewish person…yadvashem
Gideon Hausner (1915, Lvov - November 15 1990) was an Israeli jurist and politician: from 1960 to 1962 attorney-general, later a member of...
Giovanni Palatucci

Giovanni Palatucci

male, deceased (1945)
anti-nazi, from the Province of Avellino, visa, campagna, University of Turin, Consulate General…yadvashem
Giovanni Palatucci (May 31, 1909 -February 10, 1945) was an Italian police official who saved thousands of Jews from being deported to Nazi...
Angelo Rotta

Angelo Rotta

male, deceased (1965)
hungarian, yadvashem, Diplomat of the Holy See, Hungarian Jew, Bulgarian Jew, wwii
Angelo Rotta (1872 - 1965), originally from Milan, Italy, was the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest at the end of WWII. During his previous diplomatic...
Wilm Hosenfeld

Wilm Hosenfeld

male, deceased (1952)
German, Nazi-occupied Poland, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Hessen-Nassau, Pabianice, General Government…yadvashem
Wilm Hosenfeld (full name: Wilhelm Hosenfeld; May 2 1895 in Mackenzell, Hessen-Nassau, Germany-August 13 1952 near Stalingrad), originally a...