Featured Stories

Featured here are a number of rescue stories of Righteous Among the Nations.
Please check back with us as we will continue to expand this section.

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Latest Stories

• "We are all Jews": Roddie Edmonds NEW!
• Fufilling their "Humanitarian Duty": Helena Sitkowska and her son Andrzej Sitkowski
• Rescued by an Egyptian in Berlin: Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann
• Racing to Save Lives: Gino Bartali
• Seder at the Parish: Don Gaetano Tantalo
• Surviving with a Muslim Identity in Warsaw: Stanisław and Regina Świda
• "He Actually Saved 40 Souls": Georges Dilsizian and his son André-Gustave
• Rescue in the Sewers: Leopold & Magdalena Socha 
• From the Killing Site to a Welcoming Family: Vartan Mkrtchyan and his mother Arkal, Knarik Shakhbazian 
• The Nanny That Kept Her Promise: Gertruda Bablinska 
• The Port Worker Who Turned Rescuer: Jan and Johana Lipke 
• A Mother's Deathbed Confession: Ida Brunelli-Lenti 
• Rescue in Odessa: Ashkhen Agopyan 
• Chinese Visas in Vienna: Feng-Shan Ho 
• Here Is the List of Jews You Required: Metropolitan Chrysostomos and Mayor Lucas Carrer 
• The Mother Superior’s Tears: Euzebia Bartkowiak
• The Unexpected Guest: Fatima Kanapatskaiya and her daughter Aysha (Anna) 
• The Life Saving Stay in the Hospital: Roger & Jeanette Voinot 
• The Failed Attempt to Rescue Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum: Malgorzata Wolska and her children 
• The Westerweel Network: Johan Gerard & Wilhelmina Dora Westerweel
• Murdered by Their Neighbors: Vasiuta Wegrzynowska and her children 
• Murder in Markowa: Jozef & Wiktoria Ulma 
• Shelter During the Massacres: Ignat and Sofya Yermolovich 
• The Memory of the Armenian Genocide: The Tashchyan Family 
• The Murder of the Fisherman and his Wife: Johannes & Anna Syrier
• Hiding in Graves in a Cemetery: Manko & Maryna Swierszczak and Michal & Genowefa Dukiewicz
• The Forrester’s Sacrifice: Mykolas & Jadvyga Šimelis
• The Rescue of the Future Chief Justice: Jaroslavas Rakevičius and his sons 
• The Partisan who Defied his Comrades: Jozef Marchwinski
• The Actress’ Finest Role: Dorothea Neff
• A Call for Help to Sotirios: Yiorgos & Magdalini Mitzeliotis and Stefanos & Magdalini Korfiatis
• “You can take my body, but not my soul”: Mefodiy & Kseniya Logatzky and daughter Darya
• Teaching the Rescuer’s Daughters Math and Reading: Antonina Kulakovskaya & daughter Vera Gribanova (Kulakovskaya) 
• “Saint Feodosiya”: Filip & Teklya Konyukh and their sons Aleksander & Andrey 
• “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven”: Jane Haining
• “Goodbye Children”: Lucien Bunel
• The Bond between Rescuers and the Children they Saved: Jozef & Augusta De Winne
• The Soccer (Football) Player who Turned Rescuer: Tadeusz Gebethner
• The Courageous Student: Pieter Adriaan Meerburg
• Flight to Japan and China: Jan Zwartendijk
• A Love that Knew No Bounds: Ivan (Ivica) Vranetic
• "Our Helpers" in the Secret Annex: Hermine (Miep) & Jan Augustus Gies
• Milena – Franz Kafka's Love: Milena Jesenská
• Shmuel Eliraz’ Lost Childhood: Maria Walewska
• Nouf-Nouf’s Rescue: Julien Henri Marius & Pauriol Heniette Augustine
• Documenting the Missing Years: Pakker Frans & Rie (De Wit)
• “Our heart... generated the necessary courage”: Pierre Nicolini
• The Memory of Feodor’s Goodness: Feodor Mikhailichenko
• "I felt sorry for him": Heinrich & Maria List
• Remembering Little Loesje: Jacob and Wijntje de Vries
• In Search of Esther: Stanislaw & Tasilia Pozniak and daughter Janina 
• The Partisan and the Old Woman: Gennady Safonov
• The Rescue of a Childhood Friend: Stanislawa Rotman-Kaczmarczyk
• “I am unable to serve with loyalty”: Jean Phillipe
• Three Boys in the Studite Monastery: Hieromonk Daniil Tymchyna 
• The "Pianist"’s Rescuer: Wilhelm (Wilm) Hosenfeld
  
• "The Forest, My Friend": Jozsef Vamos
  
• The Life Saving Stamp Collection: Jozsef Vamos
  
• Paying the Ultimate Price: Henk Drogt
  
• Rescue in the Royal Palace: Princess Alice
• Rescue in a Circus: Adolf and Maria Althoff 
• The Assisi Network: Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Nicolini, Father Aldo Brunacci, Father Rufino Nicacci, Luigi Brizi and his son Trento 
• A Baby in a Parcel: Djina-Gertruda Beritic and her son Tihomil
• Anna of the Angels: Anna Borkowska
• British POWs: Stan Wells, George Hammond, Tommy Noble, Alan Edwards, Roger Letchford, Bill Keeble, Bert Hambling, Bill Scruton, Jack Buckley and Willy Fisher 
• Office Romance and Rescue: Yefim Buldov
• Rescue by a Fashion Queen: Marie Louise Carven
• Priests, Farmers and Noblemen: Joseph Celis and his children; Marie Louise Tabruyn, Father Louis Celis’ housekeeper; Alfons and Clementina Maris; and Baron Raymond and Baroness Marcelle de Tornaco 
• The SS officer's Gift of Candy: Maria Chomova and her daughter, Olga Sramkova
• A Father's Birthday Gift: Henry Cooymans and his wife, Alice Cooymans-Schöller
• Dreaming of America: Mykola and Maria Dyuk
• Unknown Children: Elisabeth & Karel Eckhart and mother Gertrude Eckhart
• The Maid who Became Rescuer: Erzsebet Fajo
• An American in Marseille: Varian Fry
• 18 Months in a Haystack: Pavel & Lyubov Gerasimchik and their children 
• Geulen's List: Andree Geulen-Herscovici
• The Witness to Murder Who Decided to Act: Hermann Friedrich Graebe
• The Policeman who Lifted the Border Barrier: Paul Grueninger
• Muslim Rescuers in Sarajevo: Mustafa and Zejneba Hardaga, Izet and Bachriya Hardaga, Ahmed Sadik
• Shelter for a Little Girl: Milena Herbenova
• The Unusual Fate of Two Sisters: Prokofiy and Lidiya Ivanov & Yelizaveta Kondratyeva
• "The Hand of a Child Around a Mother's Neck": Leokadia Jaromirska
• The Envoy: Jan Karski
• Eli Levin's Search into the Past: Tadeusz and Wladyslawa Korsak & Jan and Maria Michalowski
• An Impossible Dilemma: Angela and Frantiszek Melo and their son Frantiszek
• The Insubordinate Consul: Aristides De Sousa Mendes 
• The Devoted Teacher: Joseph Migneret
• The Priest's Request: Father Bronius Paukstys 
• Contesting the Deportations in Parliament: Dimitar Peshev
• The Insurgent Mayor: Traian Popovici
• A Tale of Two French Butchers: Jules & Jeanne Roger & mother Louise Roger, Esther & Roger Perret 
• Schindler's List: Oskar and Emilie Schindler 
• The Soldier "Whose Heart was in Jewish Matters": Anton Schmid
• The Secret of the Janitor's Cellar: Robert and Johanna Sedul, Otilija Schimelpfening
• Smuggling Children out of the Ghetto: Irena Sendler
• Visas to Japan: Chiune Sempo Sugihara 
• The Heroic Village Idiot: Anton Sukhinski
• Into Wiktoria's Arm: Wiktoria and Stanislaw Szumielewicz
• With Fishing Boats to Sweden: Henry Christen and Ellen Margrethe Thomsen 
• Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: André & Magda Trocmé, Daniel Trocmé 
• Muslim rescuers in Albania: Veseli and Fatima Veseli and their children: Refik, Hamid & Xhemal 
• Infants in Milk Cans: Henriette (Hetty) Voute, Gisela Wieberdink-Soehnlein
• Swedish Rescuer in Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg 
• Over the Ghetto Walls: Wladyslawa Wierzbicka-Kostanska and her son, Jan Kostanski
• Hiding in Cages in the Zoo: Jan and Antonina Zabinski