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Is this the official list from yad vashem, or does it include others? Gzuckier 21:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
The list should, as the lemma states, just include those people which are officially recognized by Yad Vashem.Gugganij (talk) 13:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
This appears to be in random order, or descending by Total number (with the exception of Turkey at the end), even though we don't link to every one. Wouldn't it be easier to just alphabetize them by Nation? - A.J. 00:02, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
The list should be referenced properly. Does Yad Vashem provide a list of those people it officially recognized as Righteous Among the Nations? Gugganij (talk) 13:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I added an unreferenced-tag. The term "Righteous Among the Nations" has a specific meaning, therefore the list should just include those who has been awarded this title by Israel. Gugganij (talk) 14:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
WARNING: Somebody has added Francisco Franco to those listed in Spain!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.37.131.155 (talk) 10:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
We are presentely working on an upgraded website, where we will also put all the names of the Righteous recognized by Yad Vashem. Hopefully the site will be up within a couple of months. Thank you for informing us and for your interest. Irena Steinfeldt
Director, Righteous Among the Nations Department
Yad Vashem
P.O.B. 3477
91034 Jerusalem
Tel: 972-2-6443 521
Fax: 972-2-6443 743
email: irena.steinfeldt@yadvashem.org.il
www.yadvashem.org
So I'll delete his name right away. Also, an update with the official list should be nice when it comes out as they say.JorgeGT (talk) 12:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
It would be interesting to add percentages showing how large part of a given country populace received the medals. If country A with population of 100 got 50 medals, and country B with population of 1000 got 100 medals, country B would look "better" in total numbers, but much worse in the percentages (10% to 50%).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Yad Vashem published a virtual wall of honour for those recognized as Righteous among Nations (see here). Gugganij (talk) 23:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Serbia is the only country that does not have any prominent individuals. Lets work on this. Please reply here and not on my talk page since a lot of racist people follow my edits and i dont want to bring them here.Mike Babic (talk) 09:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
I notice that Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty is not listed. I am not sure if someone wants to start a new section for Ireland, but I thought I'd point it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.97.69.26 (talk) 20:23, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
I updated the figures using Yad Vashems statistics. I removed those countries not listed there, since I think we should rely solely on official figures. Gugganij (talk) 20:58, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
According the article [1]:
Turkey also became a country of asylum. Close to 100,000 Jews from German-occupied Europe made Turkey their country of first asylum. Jews from various parts of occupied Europe found temporary asylum in Turkey that ultimately resulted in their resettlement, mostly in Palestine and subsequently in Israel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.245.27.172 (talk) 09:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Schindler spoke German but he lived in what is now the Czech Republic. Shouldn't he be listed under the Czech Republic rather than Germany? Epa101 (talk) 18:51, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
The text accompanying this entry states that "The late dictator Rafael Trujillo and the Dominican Republic are not on the List of the Righteous among the Nations..." In that case, shouldn't the entry be deleted? It reads a bit too much like "this person *should* be on the List", which is not the point of the article. 109.149.143.15 (talk) 02:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Would you please change the total number of saved jews on the list? Thank you.
Switzerland (total: over 60,000)
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive/Righteous_Swiss_who_saved_thousands_of_Jews.html?cid=664188 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.83.204.16 (talk) 01:29, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
O'Flaherty's Talk page has a discussion which makes it clear that he is not (or at least not yet) recognised by Yad Vashem. It also makes it clear that Mary Elmes is recognised (although their online database currently stops at 1 January 2013, so her May 2013 inclusion, as reported in The Irish Times citation, presumably comes too late for her to be found online at Yad Vashem). To avoid possible future problems due archiving of the O'Flaherty Talk Page, I'm copying the relevant e-mail from Yad Vashem (to somebody called Mr Mitchell, not to me) from that Talk Page to here:
email from yad Vashem
Dear Mr. Mitchell,
The case of Mgr. O'Flaherty is well-known in our department, but unfortunately we are unable to do much about it in terms of submitting it for the consideration of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous.
The problem is that although everyone "knows" that O'Flaherty saved "many Jewish lives", no one has yet to actually name a person who was rescued by him. So the question remains: who did Mgr. O'Flaherty rescue, and who can testify on his behalf? We have printed ads in the papers several times over the years, asking people to come forward and tell us what they know – but no one ever did. So the case remains open until we find evidence for his actions.
I have to say that the name of Delia Murphy is new to me - are you able to tell me what you know of her involvement?
Also please note that the Cork-born Mary Elmes has just been recognized as Righteous for her actions in the Rivesaltes camp in France. Stories keep reaching us, even so many years later, and I would not be surprised if other stories of Irish rescuers would turn up in the future.
Kind regards,
Gili Diamant גילי דיאמנט Righteous Among the Nations dept. | Yad Vashem מחלקת חסידי אומות העולם | יד ושם Tel. +972-(0)2-6443166 Fax. +972-(0)2-6443743 gili.diamant@yadvashem.org.il
Tlhslobus (talk) 08:14, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
This page contains a long list of names under headings, but all headings other than two are incorrect, and wrongly attribute every section but two to Amsterdam. I fixed the entry for Hungary. Leegee23 (talk) 06:56, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
The list below removed from main article, Righteous among the Nations to avoid content forking . Please douible-check if this list has some additional info to me merged into article of this talk page. Staszek Lem (talk) 02:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
These figures are not necessarily an indication of the actual number of Jews saved in each country, but reflect material on rescue operations made available to Yad Vashem.[2] See List of Righteous among the Nations by country for names of individuals.
Country of origin | Awards | Notes |
---|---|---|
Poland | 6,394 | The largest contingent.[3] It includes a wide variety of individuals of different occupations and organisations activists, including Irena Sendler (Polish social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in Warsaw, saving 2,500 Jewish children); Jan Karski (who reported the situation of the Jews in occupied Poland); Tadeusz Pankiewicz (a Kraków pharmacist), Henryk Sławik (a social worker); Rudolf Weigl (a scientist); Stefan Korboński (a politician), Sister Bertranda (a Roman Catholic nun); Eryk Lipiński (a comedian); Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz (a married couple of painters); Irena Adamowicz (a leader scout); Maria Kotarba (a Polish Resistance fighter); the Podgórski sisters (shop assistants); Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (a family of farmers murdered with their six children for helping Jews); Leopold "Poldek" Socha (a sewer inspector who hid a group of Jews in a remote corner of the Lviv sewers); and writer/activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (see Polish Righteous among the Nations for additional names). |
Netherlands | 5,269 | Includes two persons originally from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) residing in the Netherlands. Includes Corrie ten Boom; Frits Philips who ran Philips during the German occupation; Gertruida Wijsmuller-Meier, who helped save about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria; Jan Zwartendijk, who as a Dutch consular representative in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued exit visas used by between 6,000 and to 10,000 Jewish refugees; includes three organisations or collectives: the collective participants of the so-called "Amsterdam dock strike" (also known as the February strike, about 30-50,000 people who on 25/26 February 1941 launched the first strike against persecution of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe), the whole village of Nieuwlande (117 inhab.) and the resistance group, NV groep (for saving Jewish children). |
France | 3,654 | In January 2007, French President Jacques Chirac and other dignitaries honored France's Righteous among the Nations in a ceremony at the Panthéon, Paris. The Legion of Honor was awarded to 160 French Righteous among the Nations for their efforts saving French Jews during World War II.[4] |
Ukraine | 2,441 | Daniil Tymchina, hieromonk of the Univ Lavra (2008); Klymentiy Sheptytsky, the Archimandrite of the Studite monks of Greek-Catholic Monastery (1995); Stepan Omelianiuk (1982) [who?] |
Belgium | 1,635 | Including Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians |
Lithuania | 844 | See Lithuanian Righteous among the Nations, including Kazys Binkis and Ona Šimaitė |
Hungary | 806 | Including Zoltán Lajos Bay (physicist); Béla Király ("Father of radar-astronomy"); Géza Ottlik (author); Endre Szervánszky (composer); Paulina and Ilona Kolonits (the latter a documentary film director); Father Raile Jakab, S. J.; Margit Slachta (social activist); Blessed Sára Salkaházi, S.S.S. (Roman Catholic nun) |
Belarus | 587 | Including Mariya Yevdokimova[5] |
Italy | 563 | Including Laura and Constantino Bulgari,[6] Lorenzo Perrone, Francesco Repetto, Giorgio Perlasca[7] and the Blessed Odoardo Focherini[8] |
Slovakia | 534 | Including Pavel Peter Gojdič, Dr. Michal Majercik and his wife Anna [9] |
Germany | 525 | Including Oskar Schindler, the businessman who saved more than 1,000 Jews by employing them in his factory; Captain Gustav Schröder who commanded the "Voyage of the Damned"; German Army officers Wilm Hosenfeld and Heinz Drossel; Major Karl Plagge (Wehrmacht); German Wehrmacht army lieutenant and lawyer Albert Battel; resistance fighter Hans von Dohnányi, and writer Armin Wegner |
Greece | 315 | Including Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens and Princess Alice of Battenberg |
Russia | 186 | Including Nikolay Yakovlevich Kiselyov |
Latvia | 135 | Including Jānis Lipke |
Serbia | 131 | Including Aleksandar Petrović, Vidosava Petrović Milenković, and the Very Rev Svetozar Milenković |
Czech Republic | 109 | Victor Kugler |
Croatia | 109 | Including Žarko Dolinar and Mate Ujević. For more names see: List of Croatian Righteous Among the Nations |
Austria | 92 | Including Irene Harand, Florian Tschögl, and Kurt Reinhard |
Moldova | 79 | Includes the Stoyanov family [10] |
Albania | 69 | See Albanian Righteous among the Nations |
Romania | 60 | Including Prince Constantin Karadja, credited by Yad Vashem with saving more than 51,000 Jews[11] |
Norway | 50 | See Norwegian Righteous among the Nations; the Norwegian Underground is listed as one group |
Switzerland | 45 | Including Carl Lutz, who helped save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews [citation needed] |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 42 | Includes Roza Sober-Dragoje and Zekira Besrević, Mustafa and Zejneba Hardaga, Izet and Bachriya Hardaga, Ahmed Sadik [12][13] |
Denmark | 22 | As per their request, members of the Danish Underground who participated in the rescue of the Danish Jews are listed as one group. The fishermen who transported Danish Jews to Sweden in 1943, however, were ineligible because they had been paid.[14] |
Armenia | 21 | Includes Taschdjian (Tashchiyan) family [15][16] |
Bulgaria | 20 | Dimitar Peshev; Metropolitan Stefan of Sofia and Metropolitan Kiril of Plovdiv of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church |
United Kingdom | 19 | This list includes Major Frank Foley but excludes Sir Nicholas Winton (who is of Jewish parentage) |
10 | Including Smiljan Franjo Čekada, Boris Altiparmak, and Stojan Siljanovski | |
Sweden | 10 | Including Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Valdemar Langlet |
Slovenia | 7 | Including Zora Piculin [17] |
Spain | 6 | Ángel Sanz Briz, José Ruiz Santaella and his wife, Carmen , and Eduardo Propper de Callejón |
Estonia | 3 | Uku and Eha Masing and Polina Lentsman |
United States | 3 | Varian Fry; Martha and Waitstill Sharp |
Brazil | 2 | Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas and Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa |
Republic of China | 2 | Pan Jun Shun and Feng-Shan Ho (provided approximately 2,000 visas to Jews in need during his tenure as ambassador of ROC to Vienna in 1938) |
Portugal | 2 | Aristides de Sousa Mendes, issued 30,000 visas to people escaping the Nazis Carlos Sampaio Garrido, sheltered about 1,000 Jews in safe-houses in Budapest and gave them Portuguese documents to leave the country [citation needed] |
Chile | 1 | Maria Edwards McClure[18] |
El Salvador | 1 | José Castellanos Contreras (provided Salvadoran citizenship papers to approximately 13,000 Central European Jews) |
Georgia | 1 | Sergei Metreveli |
Ireland | 1 | Mary Elmes[19] (Not counted in totals below, as they are only up to 1 January 2013, and Yad Vashem accepted her in May 2013) |
Japan | 1 | Chiune Sugihara (provided approximately 3,400 transit visas to Jews in need) |
Luxembourg | 1 | Victor Bodson (former Justice Minister and Chairman of the Luxembourg House of Representatives; saved approximately 100 Jews) |
Montenegro | 1 | Petar Zankovic |
Cuba | 1 | Ámparo (Otero) Pappo |
Ecuador | 1 | Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero |
Egypt | 1 | Mohammed Helmy[20] |
Turkey | 1 | Selâhattin Ülkümen |
Vietnam | 1 | Paul Nguyễn Công Anh |
Total | 24,356 | As of 01 January 2013[update][2] |
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).A Cork woman who risked her life to save Jewish children from Nazi gas chambers has become the first Irish person to be honoured as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Among those saved by Mary Elmes, who died in 2002, was Ronald Friend, now professor emeritus of psychology at Stony Brook, New York. At the time he was a two-year-old child whose father would not survive but whose five-year-old brother Michael was also rescued by Ms Elmes.
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Especially in the cases of a single or a handful from one country, it seems worthwhile to obtain information, maybe from Yad Vashem, for them. I will do what I can personally but it is a big job.--Jrm2007 (talk) 11:24, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
i found Jew who saved Christian. There is RS Aron Shaviv saved 149. http://thelandofisrael.com/meet-the-jew-who-saved-149-christian-lives/ 99.90.196.227 (talk) 02:43, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
List of Righteous Among the Nations by country#By country and ethnic origin I was looking for the Frietsche (spelling?) family, parents, a boy and a girl wo lived on the Emmalaan in Baarn, Netherlands The Frietsches hid Mr. Mrs., and Peter Rollman(n). After WW II the Roll family became our neighbours on the Emmalaan. Peter Horn User talk 22:29, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
"These people risked their lives or their liberty and position to help Jews during the Holocaust"
No doubt they risked their lives and their position, but the usage of the word liberty here seems off since the word liberty rarely refers to personal liberty when used standalone but civil liberties — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.101.74.84 (talk) 10:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
It is very bad and confusing 2600:1700:3AD8:14F0:DDFD:5EC3:1A57:BB4E (talk) 02:01, 18 January 2022 (UTC)