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Righteous Among the Nations
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Israeli honorific for non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust
"Righteous Among the Nations" is an Israeli honor given to non-Jewish people who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title recognizes these individuals for their extraordinary courage and moral courage during one of history's darkest periods.
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Official website
Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is entrusted with Holocaust commemoration, documentation, research and education: remembering the six million Jews murdered by the German Nazis and their collaborators; commemorating the destroyed Jewish communities, the ghetto and resistance fighters; and honoring the Righteous Among the Nations who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- award
- Country
- Israel
- Official website
- www.yadvashem.org
- Image
- Medaille Gerechter unter den Völkern 1.png
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- conferred by
- Yad Vashem
- Commons category
- Righteous Among the Nations
- related category
- Category:Luxembourgian Righteous Among the Nations
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Righteous Among the Nations
- topic has template
- Template:Righteous Among the Nations
- female form of label
- Праведніца народаў сьвету
- male form of label
- Праведнік народаў сьвету
- native label
- חסיד אומות העולם
- quantity
- 28707
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Encyclopedic overview
The Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם ḥasidei ummot ha'olam) is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe all of the non-Jews who, out of altruism, risked their lives in order to save Jews from being exterminated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The term originates from the concept of ger toshav, a legal term used to refer to non-Jewish observers of the Seven Laws of Noah.
Recent research has complicated dominant historical narratives about rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. The vast majority of rescue was enabled by the exchange of money, goods, or services, while many survivors concealed complicating facts in applications of Yad Vashem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Righteous Among the Nations” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.