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Building before the renovation (Credit - Aldo Bonata - Ministry of Culture)

March 1, 2023, 11:27 am

Albania creating a museum to honour citizens who rescued Jews

'Besa' memorial, meaning 'faith' and 'keeping a promise', will celebrate the Albanian people, who as a nation, refused to hand over a single Jew to the Nazis

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 23, 2022, 2:07 pm

Polish Holocaust hero and ‘sole reason’ for UK family’s existence is honoured

Jozef Wegrzynowski will be named Righteous Among the Nations on Sunday for hiding Max Ostro, who would later have a large family in Britain

By Michael Daventry

Ichak Kalderon Adizes: takes after his father. Here is Dr Adizes playing the accordion at his house in Guadalajara, México in 2019.

January 26, 2022, 4:46 pm

‘Albanian Muslims saved my family during the Shoah’

Exclusive: New book reveals by Ichak Kalderon Adizes reveals how he and his family were hidden in a remote village for two years by brothers Ali and Rajib Brahimi

By Jenni Frazer

The Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem,

March 25, 2020, 11:20 am

Last surviving German recognised as righteous gentile dies aged 98

Gertrud Steinl, who was recognised by Yad Vashem in 1979 as a Righteous Among the Nations, died a day before her 98th birthday.

By JTA

Coby de Groot and her daughter. Coby helped to hide Ria Gurfein

January 29, 2020, 5:36 pm

Righteous honours for our saviours

Yad Vashem has recognised more than 27,362 people who risked their lives to save Jews. We look at a few of these heroes

By Jenni Frazer

Descendants of the Mordechai family and Righteous Among the Nations rescuer Melpomeni Dina on the balcony exiting from Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum
(Credit: Yad Vashem)

November 4, 2019, 2:16 pm

WATCH: Shoah survivors reunited with Greek rescuer for first time since war

Survivors Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor meet with one of their rescuers, Melpomeni Dina, and were joined by nearly 40 descendants, who are alive today thanks to her heroism

By JTA

The medal given to 'heroic and exceptional' Righteous among the Nations

September 20, 2019, 12:05 pm

30 righteous Poles honoured at special Warsaw event

The rescuers have all been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum.

By Jewish News Reporter

August 10, 2019, 7:08 pm

UK Shoah activist euologises Polish righteous woman, 102, as a ‘beacon of light’

After helping to fund a bed for Krystyna Danko, who was both blind and deaf, Jonny Daniels paid tribute to her as 'an angel of goodness and righteousness'

By JTA

Jews saved by the scheme, which was funded by British Jews

July 4, 2019, 12:08 pm

Revealed: UK Jews helped save 8,000 from Nazis

Exclusive: New documents bring remarkable World War Two mission to light, in which dramatic operation spearheaded by Poland's consul in Switzerland helped rescue thousands

By Jenni Frazer

April 25, 2019, 12:56 pm

Yad Vashem posthumously honours Dutch couple for hiding Jewish boys during Shoah

Israel's national Holocaust memorial museum honours Jantje and Johannes Krijl during Jerusalem ceremony

By JTA

Unveiling bust of Mrs. Wijsmuller in Princess Beatrixoord in the Oosterpark, Amsterdam, 1965.

April 8, 2019, 3:28 pm

Dutch filmmakers making doc about Shoah hero appeal to UK Jews for help

Film about resistance fighter Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer being made by team from Holland, who are reaching out to Brits who she may have helped save

By Jewish News Reporter

Jonny Daniels alongisde former Chelsea boss, and FTD Honorary president Avram Grant, outside the HQ of the London club. Picture credit: Philip Latka

December 11, 2018, 4:44 pm

Taxis to honour Righteous ‘Silent Hero’ Poles launched in Parliament

From the Depths send two black cabs to Poland to support elderly people who saved Jews during the Shoah

By Joe Millis

Jonny Daniels with Righteous Among The Nations - Józef Jarosz

November 29, 2018, 3:45 pm

Chelsea owner funds new project to record testimonies of Lithuania’s Righteous

British-born Israeli activist who runs From The Depths thanks Roman Abramovich for supporting the initiative as "time is sadly very limited" to act

June 20, 2018, 11:26 am

Five must-know facts about Prince William’s historic visit to Israel

Ahead of Prince William's trip to the Jewish state next week - here are a few quirky things about the Royal Family's ties to Israel

By Josefin Dolsten (JTA)

Righteous Among the Nations medals and diplomas handed over during a ceremony in the Polish Senate in 2012

September 8, 2017, 2:14 pm

Polish rescuers of Jews during Holocaust honoured for ‘true heroism’

Thirty righteous Poles ranging in age from 80s to 101 are recognised for putting their lives in danger to save Jews during the Shoah

By JTA

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