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Righteous Among the Nations

Serge Klarsfeld, president of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, speaks at a ceremony commemorating the Jews who were rounded up at Vel d'Hiv in 1942 and deported to Nazi concentration and death camps, on July 19, 2026. (Screenshot via CNEWS on YouTube)
July 19, 2026, 3:50 pm
France commemorates 1942 roundup of Jews, after plaque honoring rescuers defaced
Deputy minister vows to restore memorial honoring family that saved 13-year-old from deportation when 13,152 Jews were rounded up at Vel d’Hiv and sent to Nazi camps
By AP
Students and their teachers from Berlin’s Refik Veseli School and Tirana’s Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri pose for a group shot in front of Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
April 7, 2026, 3:48 pm
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
Students at Refik Veseli Schule, named for an Albanian honored as Righteous Among the Nations, learn about ‘besa,’ a precept that mandates the protection of strangers fleeing persecution
By Larry Luxner
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is being awarded a Medal of Honor in 2026 for his bravery in protecting Jewish troops in World War II. (Courtesy Yad Vashem via JTA)
February 23, 2026, 4:59 am
US soldier who saved Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
Roddie Edmonds is one of only five Americans to be credited as Righteous Among the Nations, having been bestowed the honor for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge in 1945
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The seven Weber siblings upon their arrival at New York Harbor in May 1946. Bottom row from left: Renee, Judith, and Bela. Top row from left: Gertrude, Alfons, Senta, and Ruth. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 24, 2025, 2:22 am
Netflix tells tale of 7 siblings who miraculously survived the Holocaust to restart life in US
Now streaming, ‘UnBroken’ illuminates story of the Webers, who lived in hiding on a German farm for two years — only to be cruelly separated upon arrival in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Red hands graffitis are seen on the "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes), in Paris, France, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin UTZ / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 6:53 pm
French police say suspects in Paris Holocaust memorial graffiti case fled to Belgium
Prosecutors say bus reservations made from Bulgaria; red hands, symbolizing calls for Gaza ceasefire, painted on wall honoring those who rescued Jews, surrounding buildings
By AFP and ToI Staff
A city employee cleaning the "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) after the monument was vandalized in Paris, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/AFP)
May 14, 2024, 10:31 pm
Paris memorial for people who saved Jews during Holocaust vandalized
Mayor Anne Hidalgo files complaint with Paris prosecutor and calls incident ‘unspeakable’ as wave of antisemitism in France continues to grow
By AP and ToI Staff
In 'Irena's Vow,' Irena Gut (Sophie Nélisse) crouches in front of the grill covering the entrance to the basement of a German officer's home in Tarnopol, Poland where she hides 12 Jews (Quiver Distribution)
April 15, 2024, 12:37 pm
How 12 Jews survived the Holocaust hidden by a maid in a Nazi officer’s basement
Film ‘Irena’s Vow,’ opening in the US on April 15, tells the true story of faith and humanity that led a young Polish woman to risk her life to save the lives of others
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Former Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer speaks at a press conference for media freedom in Israel, at Bar Ilan university, February 26, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2024, 3:55 pm
Ex-Supreme Court justice Melcer to lead panel that selects Righteous Among Nations
Retired judge, whose father was rescued by Oskar Schindler and whose mother survived Auschwitz, calls appointment to Yad Vashem committee a ‘great honor’
By ToI Staff
Joseph Avi Yair Engel, right, whose parents were Holocaust survivors and whose grandson was released from captivity in Gaza, speaks at rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages, in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 28, 2024, 4:31 am
Holocaust traumas, modern failings echo at rallies for hostages, against government
As world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, stories of survivors and rescuers take center stage at weekly gathering; six arrested as anti-Netanyahu protesters attempt to block roads
By Canaan Lidor
This undated photo shows Polish farmer Jozef Ulma with his wife Wiktoria. The Ulmas were killed with their seven children by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews during World War II. (Mateusz Szpytma, Deputy head of Poland's IPN history institute via AP)
September 10, 2023, 11:56 am
In first, Vatican beatifies Polish family of 9 executed by Nazis for sheltering Jews
Mass held in honor of the Ulmas, who were killed along with 8 Jews they were hiding; experts have warned Warsaw could use recognition to downplay Poles’ role in Holocaust
By Agencies
File: The name of the Wiktoria i Jozef Ulma is seen on the wall commemorating Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the opening ceremony of The Ulma Family Museum Of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa, Poland, March 17, 2014. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 7:54 pm
Beatification of righteous Poles helping leaders downplay Holocaust role — experts
Historians warn Warsaw using celebration of family who died rescuing Jews to prop up image and ignore collaboration with Nazis
By Bernard OSSER
A view of a statue honoring 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, after an inauguration in the capital Pristina, August 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Sylejman Kllokoqi)
August 24, 2023, 3:28 pm
Kosovo inaugurates ‘Wall of Honor’ for 23 Albanians who rescued Jews from Holocaust
Monument honors those who saved their Jewish neighbors from Nazis during World War II
By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI
Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2023, 8:42 pm
Researchers say Japan exaggerated the story of ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara
In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name – but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?
By Jordyn Haime
Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska in the Hall of Names as Yad Vashem Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023. (Twitter screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 21, 2023, 4:51 pm
Zelenska visits Yad Vashem, launches new Ukrainian-language audio guide
Ukraine’s first lady inaugurates promenade in Jerusalem named for Ukrainian couple who saved Jewish family during Holocaust
By Michael Horovitz
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