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Righteous Among the Nations
Nazi official who risked life to save hundreds of Jews posthumously recognized
By Yaakov Schwartz
40 years after his death, Helmut Kleinicke, who kept mum about sheltering and helping Jewish laborers avoid deportation to death camps, designated as Righteous Among the Nations
Helmut Kleinicke, center, used his position during the war to save what's estimated to be hundreds of Jews. (Juta Scheffzek/ Jewish Welfare Board of Germany)
January 16, 2020, 10:05 pm
Nazi official who risked life to save hundreds of Jews posthumously recognized
40 years after his death, Helmut Kleinicke, who kept mum about sheltering and helping Jewish laborers avoid deportation to death camps, designated as Righteous Among the Nations
By Yaakov Schwartz
Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimaraes Rosa. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 12, 2019, 11:14 pm
Postage stamp features Brazilian who helped rescue Jews from the Nazis
Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimaraes Rosa, known as ‘Angel of Hamburg,’ is one of the country’s two Righteous Among the Nations
By Marcus M. Gilban
Laureen Nussbaum, friend of Anne Frank, in Berlin on May 9, 2019, during a German media interview about the newly published book 'Anne Frank - Liebe Kitty.' (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images/via JTA)
November 24, 2019, 7:01 pm
Anne Frank’s friend writes about German official who saved thousands from camps
With a new memoir, 92-year-old Laureen Nussbaum wants to set record straight about Hans Calmayer who saved her family and countless others from deportation and probable death
By Emily Burack
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds refused a Nazi command to identify Jewish American soldiers. (Yad Vashem via JTA)
November 14, 2019, 3:01 am
On Veterans Day, Trump told story of US POW who saved Jewish comrades from Nazis
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds defied a Nazi command to identify which of his fellow American soldiers were Jewish; ‘We are all Jews,’ said Edmonds, who was not Jewish
By Josefin Dolsten
Holocaust survivor Hanni Levy at an extraordinary party convention in Hanover, Germany, January 1, 2018. (Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP)
October 24, 2019, 1:26 pm
Hanni Lévy, who survived Holocaust in Berlin, dies aged 95
Lévy, whose story was told in the 2017 movie ‘The Invisibles,’ was hidden by non-Jews honored by Israel after the war; Merkel mourns ‘an impressive woman’
By AP and TOI staff
Xhemal Veseli, left, with Jonny Daniels in Tirana, Albania in October 2019. (Courtesy of From the Depths via JTA)
October 15, 2019, 9:47 pm
Albanian who rescued Jews during Holocaust to be honored in Poland
Group organizing event says testimonies like 93-year-old Xhemal Veseli’s ‘bring us together as Jews and Muslims’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Actress Gal Gadot attends the 2018 National Board of Review Awards Gala in New York City on January 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Angela Weiss)
October 12, 2019, 11:46 pm
Gadot to produce, star in film on Polish woman who saved 2,500 kids from Nazis
Wonder Woman actress forms production company with husband; in its first movie, she will play Righteous Gentile Irena Sendler, who smuggled Jewish children out of Warsaw ghetto
By TOI staff
Descendants of Jews saved by Oskar Schindler gather at his gravesite in Jerusalem on October 7, 2019 (Channel 13 screenshot)
October 8, 2019, 1:39 pm
Schindler honored by children of those he saved — and a single survivor
As group congregates to mark 45 years since German industrialist’s death, one woman says her parents, whom he saved, begat over 150 descendants: ‘It is all your doing’
By TOI staff
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
September 23, 2019, 1:39 pm
Raoul Wallenberg’s family demands Sweden press Russia for news of his fate
Stockholm has long resisted pressure to confront Moscow over the diplomat, who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
By TOI staff and Agencies
Polish people who saved Jews during World War II sit with family members and others during an event to honor them, in Warsaw, Poland, September 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 8, 2019, 9:16 pm
As their numbers shrink, Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust honored
‘When most turned their backs on their Jewish neighbors, you did not,’ executive VP Jewish Foundation for the Righteous tells aging rescuers in Warsaw
By Vanessa Gera
Latvian star Arturs Skrastins, left, portrays Latvian Holocaust hero and Righteous Among the Nations member Zanis Lipke in the new historical drama film 'The Mover.' (Courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival)
August 20, 2019, 4:15 am
Blue-collar Latvian ‘Schindler’ saved dozens with few resources of his own
Historical drama ‘The Mover’ tells the story of Žanis Lipke, who managed to hide and transport 60 Jews with limited means, while risking execution by occupying Nazi forces
By Rich Tenorio
Krystyna Danko receives flowers from From the Depths founder Jonny Daniels in her Warsaw apartment on her 102nd birthday, July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)
August 9, 2019, 8:33 pm
Polish woman who saved adoptive Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102
Krystyna Danko, a Righteous Among the Nations, remembered as ‘an angel of goodness’ for rescuing Kokoszko family
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Krystyna Danko receiving flowers from Jonny Daniels on in her apartment in Warsaw, Poland on her 102nd birthday on July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)
July 21, 2019, 12:26 am
Holocaust survivor helps buy hospital bed for Polish rescuer, 102
Krystyna Danko was adopted by Jewish family before World War II, then saved all four members from the Nazis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Nobuki Sugihara, second from right, with Chaim Chesler, in blue shirt, and guests of Limmud FSU Minsk at the village of Mir, Belarus, during an unveiling of a plaque for Chiune Sugihara, May 2, 2019. (Boris Brumin/via JTA)
May 23, 2019, 6:08 pm
Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara’s son sets record straight on his father’s story
Nobuki Sugihara says he’s not out to glorify his father — and proves it by debunking myths and showing that human kindness, not ideology, prompted him to save thousands of lives
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Abdol Hossein Sardari, the 'Iranian Schindler' (photo credit: Fariborz Mokhtari)
May 1, 2019, 11:25 pm
Unrecognized ‘Iranian Schindler’ said to have saved countless Paris Jews in WWII
New film ‘Sardari’s Enigma’ portrays how Abdol Hossein Sardari issued passports with an archaic — and false — Persian-Aryan ethnicity. So why isn’t he honored by Israel?
By Rich Tenorio
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