Righteous Among the Nations

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

In this still from the new historical dramatic film 'The Light of Hope,' Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz speaks with Pat, one of the children at her maternity hospital that she ran for refugees from 1939 to 1944 in Elne, France. (Courtesy)

March 12, 2019, 5:08 am

How one Swiss nurse hid hundreds of pregnant women and their kids from the Nazis

‘The Light of Hope’ shares the little-known story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, who saved young refugees during the Spanish Civil War and WWII through her French maternity clinic

By Rich Tenorio

Illustrative: Housing construction in Beit Shemesh in May 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

February 14, 2019, 10:16 am

Israel’s memorial forest to ‘Japanese Schindler’ was razed to build apartments

Son of Chiune Sugihara disappointed to find no trace of the grove in Beit Shemesh dedicated to his father; KKL-JNF apologizes and vows to replant

By TOI staff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the opening of a museum exhibition dedicated to diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Paris, France, January 24, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

January 24, 2019, 3:53 pm

Rivlin opens Paris exhibition honoring diplomats who saved Jews in Holocaust

Ahead of Sunday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, museum displays stories of 200,000 people rescued through diplomatic efforts in WWII

By TOI staff

Totko Teklak, gesturing, shows a visitor from Israel where his father hid her mother during the Holocaust in eastern Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)

December 22, 2018, 8:56 am

Israeli whose uncle was killed by Poles honors her mother’s rescuer

Relatives of Antek Teklak receive a certificate from Yad Vashem recognizing him as a Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Jewish woman

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A nun prays beside the casket and photo of 110-year-old Roman Catholic Sister Cecylia Roszak, believed to be the world's oldest nun, and a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, during her funeral ceremonies at Church of Our Lady of the Snows the Dominican in Krakow, Poland, November 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel)

November 23, 2018, 12:38 am

Polish nun who rescued Jews during Holocaust laid to rest

Cecylia Roszak was thought to be the oldest nun in the world; poet Abba Kovner was one those she and her sisters saved at a local convent

By AP and TOI staff

Cecylia Maria Roszak, right, who was awarded the 'Righteous Among Nations' honor for helping to save Jews during the Holocaust, seen here in Krakow, Poland, May 2018. (Piotr Jantos/Archdiocese of Krakow)

November 21, 2018, 8:58 pm

Polish nun who helped hide Vilna ghetto rebels during Holocaust dies at 110

Cecylia Roszak was thought to be the oldest nun in the world; poet Abba Kovner was one those she and her sisters saved at a local convent

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A black cab drives past London's Westminster Bridge, March 23, 2017 (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

November 15, 2018, 6:49 am

London Jewish cab owners donate taxis to Holocaust rescuers in Poland

Iconic black vehicles will be used in initiative to help chauffeur elderly Poles who risked their lives to save Jews

By JTA

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia speaks at en event in the capital of Quito on November 9, 2018, to restore Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero as a member of the country's diplomatic service. (Screen capture: YouTube)

November 14, 2018, 7:16 pm

Ecuador restores credentials of late diplomat who saved Jews from Nazis

Ecuadorian FM leads ceremony honoring Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero, who was removed as consul in Stockholm for issuing passports to fleeing Jews

By JTA

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite (2nd-R), King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander (C), Rob Zwartendijk (5th-R) and his wife Edith (4th-R) and the Mayor of Kaunas Visvaldas Matijosaitis (R) attend a ceremony to unveil an installation to honor Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk, credited with saving over 2,000 Jews from the Holocaust during WWII, on June 15, 2018, in Kaunas, Lithuania. (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)

October 18, 2018, 6:22 pm

Dutch government apologizes over diplomat punished for saving Jews in WWII

King of Netherlands, minister speak to family of Jan Zwartendijk, who was reprimanded after issuing unauthorized visas to more than 2,000 Jews

By TOI staff and JTA