Righteous Among the Nations

The Portuguese Consul Who Lost Everything to Save Thousands of Jews from Hitler

Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Jane M. Friedman
Dec. 5 2022 12:01AM

The Fake Disease That Saved a Group of Roman Jews from the Nazis

Syndrome K.

Stephen Silver
Aug. 25 2022 12:01AM

How Two British Opera Buffs Spent the War Years Rescuing Jews from the Nazis

Frugal, modest civil servants, neither worldly nor political—but willing to take risks.

Phyllis Chesler
Aug. 3 2022 12:01AM

The Bosnian-Muslim Family Who Saved Jews from the Nazis—and Who Were Later Rescued in Return

A new film tells the story of Zejneba Hardaga.

Daria Sito-Sucic
June 21 2022 12:01AM

The Belgian Teacher Who Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children During World War II

Andrée Geulen dies at one hundred.

Joseph Berger
June 9 2022 12:01AM

A Rare Holocaust Photograph and the Heroic Bystander Who Took It

The Ravine.

Amy Newman Smith
July 6 2021 12:01AM

The Forgotten Story of a Dutch Woman Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis

Truus Wijsmuller.

Francine Wolfisz
May 13 2021 12:01AM

A Chinese Diplomat’s Crusade to Save Jews from the Nazis

Ho Feng-Shan.

Harold Brackman
March 25 2021 12:01AM

The Polish Gentile Who Devoted Her Life to Preserving Abandoned Synagogues

Maria Piechotka, in memoriam.

Jewish Heritage Europe
Dec. 2 2020 12:01AM

How Official France Has Obscured the Role of Jewish Resisters in Rescuing Their Brethren from the Nazis

What Jesse Eisenberg gets wrong.

Tsilla Hershco
Sept. 8 2020 12:01AM

How the U.S. Nixed a Philippine Effort to Save Jews from Hitler

The Jews Manuel Quezon rescued—and those he didn’t.

Rich Tenorio
Feb. 24 2020 12:01AM

Ukraine’s Jewish President and His Country’s Struggles with Its Past

A former comedian discusses the 20th century’s great tragedies.

David Horovitz and Volodymyr Zelensky
Jan. 23 2020 12:01AM

The Joint Polish-Jewish Effort to Save Hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust

The Bernese Group.

Menachem Rosensaft
Jan. 20 2020 12:01AM

How an Albanian Muslim Rescued Two Jewish Families from Hitler

Meet Xhemal Veseli.

Ilanit Chernick
Dec. 19 2019 12:01AM
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