greenscribes8

 

Righteous Gentiles Alice

Page history last edited by alice 1 yr ago

Righteous Gentiles- " The phrased used for non-Jews who risked their lives to save jews during the holocaust."

     Righteous gentiles could be anyone during the time of the Holocaust who felt tenderhearted towards the jews and felt that they needed to help many were involved with The underground movements in different countries. People from all over including countries not affected by the war were willing to help even though this sometimes meant if they were caught that they would be treated as if they were Jews themselves and sent away to Concentration Camps. They often would do thing like sign visa into their country, hide Jews, Harbor Jews, And find ways to use their authority to help out in any way shape or form they could. Here is a list of Righteous gentiles, where they're from, what they did, and if you need more info feel free to us the links.

 

Sources: 

 http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/PEOPLE/rescuer.htm

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/

 

 

  The name of the                          Their Ethnic                                  What they did:

  Righteous gentile:                      Group:

  • German
  • A Quaker who save Jews in Berlin during world war I
  • Belgian
  • helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children and encouraged them to remain in the Jewish faith
  • Swedish
  • worked with Raoul Wallenberg to save the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews
  • German
  • sheltered a half-Jewish woman for nine months in Germany
  • Belgian
  • hid thirty Jews in Belgium
  • French
  • protected Jews in a hospital infirmary in France
  • French
  • arranged for the rescue of thousands of Jews
  • Czechoslovakian
  • cared for Herman Feder, a Jewish man who escaped from a transport in Czechoslovakia as he was being taken to a death camp
  • Polish
  • helped many Jews in Poland to escape the ghetto, obtain false documents, and find work, and  He helped a Jewish neighbor's family
  • French
  • aided Jews caught crossing the border
  • French
  • rescued about eighty Jewish children in France
  • Prague
  • rescued her future husband and his sister in Prague
  • American
  • went to France on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee with the mission of rescuing artists, writers, academics, and others at risk
  • Dutch
  • helped hide Anne Frank and her family in Holland
  • French
  • harbored Jews in Montauben, France
  • French
  • rescued Jews and then joined the Partisans
  • German
  • used his position as a foreman to employ and protect Jews in germany
  • Swedish
  • disobeyed his government by allowing some 3,600 Jews to cross illegally into Switzerland
  • French
  • hid Jews in the Le Chambon area of France
  • French
  • secretly assisted Jews in Auschwitz and Birkenau
  • Belgian
  • rescued twenty Jewish children in Belgium
  • Belgian
  • began rescue work when her Jewish students began getting deported
  • Dutch
  • risked his life to save Jewish people in Holland

  •  
  • rescued four Jewish boys
  • Polish
  • secretly visited both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp, and became one of the first people to try to alert the West
  • Buchenwald
  • was able to protect 1,300 children in Buchenwald
  • Latvian
  • who saved many Jews from the Riga ghetto
  • Portuguese
  • aid to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
  • Austrian
  • signed about 30,000 visas to help Jews and persecuted minorities to escape the Nazis
  • Bulgarian
  • helped Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust
  • Swedish
  • hid her Jewish dress designer in the back room of her apartment
  • Polish
  • head of a Belgian agency responsible for the rescue of as many as 4,000 Jewish children
  • German
  • protected Jews who worked in his factory in Poland
  • Japanese
  • issued thousands of illegal visas Jewish people enabling them to emigrate to Japan
  • Dutch
  • active member of the Dutch underground who helped many Jews obtain food, shelter, and false documents during the Nazi occupation of Holland
  • Belgian
  • hid the Jewish identity of 80 boys at a school for children of the Belgian military
  • French
  • lead an effort in the French Protestant village of Le Chambon to save 3,000-5,000 Jews
  • Swedish
  • may have saved more lives than any other single rescuer by issuing tens of thousands of illegal visas to Jews in Hungary

 

 

  
  • Dutch consul in Kovno, stamped passports of many Lithuanian Jews allowing them to emigrate to Japan

 

 

 

 By: Alice

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.

Printable version
 
Anonymous Create an account or Log in