righteous gentiles

Postage stamp features Brazilian who helped rescue Jews from the Nazis

Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimaraes Rosa, the “Angel of Hamburg,” is one of two Brazilians recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

By Marcus M. Gilban December 12, 2019 2:53 pm

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous honors non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Some 30 rescuers in their 80s and 90s were on hand for the Warsaw ceremony.

September 9, 2019 2:31 pm

How a Protestant New Yorker Smuggled Marc Chagall and Hannah Arendt Out of Nazi France

In 1994, a man whose later years were spent as a high school Latin teacher was recognized by Yad Vashem as a righteous among the nations. In 1935, it turns out, Mr. Varian Fry traveled to Berlin to report on the German government’s banning of all non-Aryans from military service and the criminalization of homosexuality. […]

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