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Between 1998-2009 Daniel Fraenkel served as Editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Communities in Germany, Yad Vashem.
The German Righteous Among the Nations
The subject of this volume is a small group of German men and women who were recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Authority, as “Righteous Among the Nations.” Active solidarity with persecuted Jews was a strictly circumscribed phenomenon in German society under Hitler. The comparative figures of the Righteous in Yad Vashem are representative in this respect, though far from exhaustive. As of the time of writing, the title of “Righteous” has been conferred on some... Continue reading