Profiles of the "Righteous among the Nations"

in the Holocaust

Presented here are profiles of the Righteous of the Holocaust.
In the 1950s, the State of Israel set up the Yad Vashem Mausoleum in Jerusalem to commemorate the victims of Hitler’s "final solution". At the beginning of the ‘60s, the "Commission of the Righteous" came into being, charged with assigning the title of "Righteous among the Nations" to those non-Jews who had rescued Jews in the years of the Nazi persecutions. Moreover, within Yad Vashem, the "Garden of the Righteous" was planted with an avenue in which every tree is dedicated to one of the Righteous.
So far, the Commission – presided for thirty years by the judge of the Constitutional Court Moshe Bejski – has recognized and documented some 20,000 Righteous people: we have chosen some of them.

Carlo Angela

Giacomo Bassi

Jan Karski

Carl Lutz

Giovanni Palatucci

Giorgio Perlasca

Lorenzo Perrone

Dimitar Peshev

Irena Sendler

Metropolitan Stephan

Armin T. Wegner